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A marmot is a furry animal of Europe, Asia, and North America, with short front legs, that lives in holes under the ground. Many kinds live in mountains and sleep through the winter. They can sit up, whistle to warn the others, and look a little like a small, fat dog. The groundhog that North Americans watch on Groundhog Day is a kind of marmot, though actually everyday English often uses groundhog or for that one and marmot for the mountain ones. It is not a rat, and it is not the prairie dog you see standing on the American plains — they are relatives, but not the same animal.
土撥鼠（較精確的生物名稱是旱獺；台灣較熟的「土撥鼠」多半是土撥鼠日那種）
組成From French marmotte. The next step is uncertain; it may copy the little sounds the animal makes when it eats. It has also been compared to Latin mūs montānus, “mountain rat.”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
marmotnoun/ˈmɑː.mət/
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Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。