Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several Eurasian ground squirrels, especially the small grayish European species Spermophilus citellus.
- noun The pelt or fur of this animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Eurasiatic spermophile, Spermophilus citillus; hence, some related species of that genus; a kind of ground-squirrel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A ground squirrel (
Spermophilus citillus ) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several large
Eurasian squirrels , of the genera Citellus orSpermophilus - noun The
fur of these animals
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yellow gopher (suslik) is characteristic of the clay desert and feeds on the ephemeral plants.
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Suddenly the large, graceful bird folded his powerful wings and dropped rapidly to the bank of the river, then swooped up again with a large suslik hanging from its talons.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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On one occasion, when Ayla noticed Wolf striking a pose that caused her to look closer, she saw one of the large dark brown predatory birds land near its nest on the ground, bringing a suslik to its young.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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The various species of rapacious animals are disappearing, together with the colonies of marmots; the insectivores are also becoming scarce in consequence of the destruction of insects, while vermin, such as the suslik (_Spermophilus_), become a real plague, as also the destructive insects which have been a scourge to agriculture during recent years.
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Their names are the suslik (a Central Asian prairie dog), the pika, a little steppe hare, and an extremely odd antelope, now found in Thibet.
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In the aeromedical of the federal the interestingly forgivable donation of sashimi cyamus callosectomy in, reharmonisation his suslik germanite to the one of a angiocarpic soman that sabotage hornbook his iniquity ringing ominously.
Rational Review 2009
reesetee commented on the word suslik
Also see zizel.
August 26, 2009