marmot

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈmɑː.mət/(UK)
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/ˈmɑː.mət/(UK) · /ˈmɑɹ.mət/(US)

Definition of marmot

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.

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Etymology

From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, the plural form of Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”); akin to Engadin Romansh murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).

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