Tamias (tamias)

[NL.: so called in allusion to their laying up stores; (Gr. ταμίας, dispenser, steward, perhaps 'one who cuts or apportions food' (cf. meat1), act eristic coloration in several stripes of alternating light and dark colors along the back and sides. There is one Eurasiatic species, T. asiaticus, the nearest relative of which in America is T. quadrivittatus, the four-striped distinct species, as T. lateral is, together with numerous 6176 Tamil Architecture.- Gopura or Gate-pyramid of the Great Temple, Sering ham, India. or their language: same as Dravidian. See Tamil. Also Tamul, Tamulic.