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woodchuck

noun

wood·​chuck ˈwu̇d-ˌchək How to pronounce woodchuck (audio)
: a grizzled thickset marmot (Marmota monax) chiefly of Alaska, Canada, and the northeastern U.S.

called also groundhog

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Humans become infected with Powassan through the bite of an infected deer or woodchuck tick. CBS News, 10 June 2022 The state's Department of Public Health announced Tuesday a fatal case of Powassan virus, which is transmitted through the bite of an infected woodchuck tick. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022 The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed on Wednesday a fatal case of Powassan virus, which is transmitted through the bite of an infected tick or woodchuck tick. Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022 The new prognosticating woodchuck, a female, arrived with a sister, museum Director Patricia Buxton announced. Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 27 July 2021 The groundhog, aka the woodchuck, is the largest member of the squirrel family. Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021 And if the woodchuck was not your rodent of choice, there were rats. David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Nov. 2020 Chuckles X, a female woodchuck that conveyed forecasts to Manchester Mayor Jay Moran this year and in 2019, was cremated, Lutz Children’s Museum interim Director Kate Morrissey said Wednesday. Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 21 Oct. 2020 There's still plenty of room among the stands of milkweed, yellow coneflower and stiff goldenrod for the monarch butterflies, purple martins, ruby-throated hummingbirds, honey bees and the rogue woodchuck. Barry Adams, Star Tribune, 7 Sep. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

by folk etymology from a word of Algonquian origin; akin to Narragansett ockqutchaun woodchuck

First Known Use

1674, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of woodchuck was in 1674

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