black squirrel

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   fox squirrel or grey squirrel in the black color phase

   Broadertree squirrel

   Part ofSciurus

Questions about black squirrel

What does black squirrel mean?

black squirrel means "fox squirrel or grey squirrel in the black color phase".

Is black squirrel a common word?

black squirrel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.