maaorava

maa (“earth, ground, soil”) +‎ orava (“squirrel”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːˌorɑʋɑ/,
• Rhymes: -orɑʋɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): maa‧ora‧va

maaorava

1. (zoology) chipmunk (rodent of the genera Tamias, Neotamias or Eutamias, formerly all classified under Tamias)

   Synonym: tikutaku

• The English verbatim translation ground squirrel, together with a modifier, may refer to a number of both Old and New World genera in the family Sciuridae. It's used without a modifier of the genus Spermophilus, the individual species of which are called siiseli or suslikki in Finnish.
• The term maaorava is more widely used than tikutaku, the term coined by a committee as a replacement for maaorava.

• “maaorava”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03