Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun prairie_dog

1 sense of prairie dog

Sense 1
prairie dog, prairie marmot -- (any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry)
       => rodent, gnawer -- (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)