SEWELLEL Definition & Meaning

sewellel

[ suh-wel-uhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

mountain beaver.

sewellel

/ ��ɪˈ��ɛ��ə�� /

noun

the mountain beaver See beaver 1

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of sewellel¹

1806, Americanism; < Lower Chinook š-�ɲ��á�� robe of mountain beaver skins, understood as the animal itself

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of sewellel¹

C19: probably from Chinook

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One of the world’s most unusual and archaic rodents is the Mountain beaver, Boomer or Sewellel, a chunky-bodied, short-limbed rodent of the North American Pacific Northwest, known to scientists as Aplodontia rufa.

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Incidentally, that weird common name that no-one seems to know quite how to pronounce – Sewellel – is honoured in Sewelleladon, an Oligocene North American aplodont named in 1958.

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"Little Chief Hare, called the Pika or Cony, and Stubtail the Mountain Beaver or Sewellel," replied Peter with great promptness.

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