cat squirrel

English

Noun

cat squirrel (plural cat squirrels)

  1. The red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris).
  2. The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).
    • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 18:
      Farther up the bank was a stand of pecans where a cat squirrel was taking bites of green nuts and dropping them to the ground to rot.
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