prairie dog

What does prairie dog mean?

prairie dog means "any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry".

What is another word for prairie dog?

Close synonyms include prairie marmot. 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 prairie dog a common word?

prairie dog 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prairie dog come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.