prairie dog

English Thesaurus

1. any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gnawer, rodent,
definition	:	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	blacktail prairie dog, cynomys ludovicianus,
definition	:	tail is black tipped (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	cynomys gunnisoni, whitetail prairie dog,
definition	:	tail is white tipped (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	cynomys, genus cynomys,
definition	:	prairie dogs (noun.animal)