flickertail

1. 1.

   of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada

   SynonymsRichardson ground squirrelCitellus richardsoni

   Broaderground squirrel

Other forms of flickertail

plural

flickertails·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flickertail

What does flickertail mean?

flickertail means "of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada".

How many syllables are in flickertail?

flickertail has 3 syllables: flic-ker-tail. The stress falls on "flic".

What is another word for flickertail?

Close synonyms include Richardson ground squirrel, Citellus richardsoni. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flickertail a common word?

flickertail 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.