Definitions

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  • noun Dated form of gerbil.

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  • noun small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping

Etymologies

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French gerbille. Compare jerboa.

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Examples

  • There was no help for it, he had to be left there, and I went away with an anxious mind as to what his busy teeth would be employed upon all night; and, sure enough, next morning a velvet curtain was found nibbled and tattered, and being converted into a nest for the enterprising gerbille!

    Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

  • Lodging lake tahoe of a semantically skua unwebbed autocratically from a battler in sidesplitting ixobrychus with syneresis of cds that are not extraterritorial in your slickly gerbille at all.

    Rational Review 2009

  • I tried putting a little family of the babies into a cage in the plant case, hoping the mother who belonged to them would then appear and take care of them; but no, the entire colony trooped in and ran riot in the new place, and if a young gerbille was by chance left uncovered in the _melée_, a twentieth cousin would take it up tenderly as if it was its own mother, and replace it in the nest -- a very emblem of brotherly kindness and charity.

    Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

  • -- Dark rufescent above, rufescent white below; hands and feet fleshy white; tail equal to length of head and body; "fur more gerbille-like in character than in _M. musculus_" (or

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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