sewellel
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of sewellel
1806, < Lower Chinook š-walál robe of mountain beaver skins, understood as the animal itself
Example Sentences
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One of the world’s most unusual and archaic rodents is the Mountain beaver, Boomer or Sewellel, a chunky-bodied, short-limbed rodent of the North American Pacific Northwest, known to scientists as Aplodontia rufa.
From Scientific American
Incidentally, that weird common name that no-one seems to know quite how to pronounce – Sewellel – is honoured in Sewelleladon, an Oligocene North American aplodont named in 1958.
From Scientific American
"Little Chief Hare, called the Pika or Cony, and Stubtail the Mountain Beaver or Sewellel," replied Peter with great promptness.
From Project Gutenberg
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