Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
suslik .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
suslik .
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- noun Alternative form of
suslik .
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- noun rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel
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Examples
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That terrible enemy of the crops of South Russia -- the souslik -- of which some ten millions are exterminated every year by man alone, lives in numberless colonies; and while the Russian provincial assemblies gravely discuss the means of getting rid of this enemy of society, it enjoys life in its thousands in the most joyful way.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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Other threatened mammals include pond bat (Myotis dasycneme), barbastelle (Barbastella barbastellus), wolf (Canis lupus), steppe polecat (Mustela eversmannii), and spotted souslik (Spermophilus suslicus).
chained_bear commented on the word souslik
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August 26, 2008