prairie dog

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

Any of genus Cynomys, small, stout-bodied burrowing rodents with shallow cheek pouches, native to North America and Central America.

Verb

1. (idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) To pop up from a hole or similar in a manner that resembles the way a prairie dog pops his head up from his burrow.
2. (euphemistic, idiomatic, slang) To struggle to hold back an involuntary bowel movement.

Conceptos

perrito de las praderas

perrillo de las praderas

Sinónimos

prairie marmot

chipmunk

🐿️

gopher

ground-squirrel

Traducciones

chien de prairie

Präriehund

prairiehond

cão-da-pradaria

cane delle praterie

cinomio

marmota-das-pradarias

marmota norte-americana

cão-dos-prados

είδος υλακτούντος τρωκτικού

κυνόμυς

cynomys

chiens de prairie

Etimología (Inglés)

From prairie + dog (“from their yelping alarm calls”).