sewellel

IPA: sˈuɪɫˈɛɫ

Examples of "sewellel" in Sentences

This extinct mammal, related to the living sewellel, is the only known horned rodent and the smallest horned mammal.
1 The sewellel (Haplodon rufus) belongs to a family which seems to be intermediate between those of the squirrel and the beaver.
The name "sewellel" was applied to the robes which they made from the skins; the animal is called "show'tl," by some Indian tribes. —
The southern part of British Columbia contains the mule deer of western North America (_Mazama macrotis_), and a very strange rodent, the sewellel or mountain beaver (_Haplodon_), a creature distantly allied to squirrels, marmots, and beavers, but restricted in its distribution to a few parts of California, Oregon, and British