whistling marmot

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   large North American mountain marmot

   Synonymshoary marmotwhistlerMarmota caligata

   Broadermarmot

Questions about whistling marmot

What does whistling marmot mean?

whistling marmot means "large North American mountain marmot".

What is another word for whistling marmot?

Close synonyms include hoary marmot, whistler, Marmota caligata. 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 whistling marmot a common word?

whistling marmot 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.