sewellel

[ suh-wel-uhl ]

noun

1. mountain beaver.

sewellel

/ sɪˈwɛləl /

noun

1. the mountain beaver See beaver 1

Word History and Origins

Origin of sewellel¹

1806, Americanism; < Lower Chinook š-walál robe of mountain beaver skins, understood as the animal itself

Word History and Origins

Origin of sewellel¹

C19: probably from Chinook

Example Sentences

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