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11 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
originFrom Spermophilus from σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”) + φιλέω (philéō, “love”), hence, "seed-lover". This genus formerly included most of the terrestrial squirrels, but all of the North American species have been split off into separate genera.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- shleppier 16
- preimpose 15
- hosepipe 15
- shlepper 15
- shoppier 15
- hempier 14
- hoppers 14
- hoppier 14
- hopples 14
- imphees 14
- orphism 14
- phloems 14