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Suslik   Listen
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Suslik  n.  (Written also souslik)  (Zool.) A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.






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"Suslik" Quotes from Famous Books



... mentioned. These creatures, whose bones are found plentifully in the drift, are now living in a country even more specialised than the African veldt. They are the creatures of the Tartar steppes and the cold plains of Central Asia. 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. This is a singularly ugly beast with a high Roman nose, and wool almost as thick as that of a sheep when the winter coat is on. It must have been quite common in ...
— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish



Words linked to "Suslik" :   gopher, Citellus citellus, spermophile, souslik, ground squirrel



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