| 释义 |
sewellel|sɪˈwɛləl|
[See quot. 1893.]
A small rodent of the Western coast of the United States, Haplodon rufus. Called also mountain-beaver (see mountain 9 c).
1814Lewis & Clarke Trav. Missouri (1815) III. 39 Sewellel is a name given by the natives to a small animal found in the timbered country on this coast. 1859S. F. Baird Mammals N. Amer. 353 Aplodontia leporina, Rich. Sewellel; Showt'l. 187.Cassell's Nat. Hist. (1896) III. 97 The sewellel is torpid during the winter. 1893Coues in Lewis & Clark's Exped. III. 861 note, It seems by the later researches of George Gibbs into the unspellable jargon of the Columbia River Indians, that ‘sewellel’ is their name for the robes, mistaken by Captain Lewis for the name of the animal. |
