le petit-gris
/pə.ti.ɡʁi/ noun · masculine C2- a Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), which in colder areas (i.e. Russia whence fur has been imported) has more gray or white fur (and therefore has also been called Sciurus cinereus)
- a gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus)
- a Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus)
- fur of any such animal
- a paintbrush from such a fur
- a garden snail (Cornu aspersum, syn. Helix aspersa)
- a grey knight or dirty tricholoma, a mushroom of species Tricholoma terreum (syn. Tricholoma myomyces)
- a certain cultivar of melon
Plural petits-gris
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