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Definition of Sousliks
1. souslik [n] - See also: souslik
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sousliks
Literary usage of Sousliks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"The sousliks are very quarrelsome among themselves, anc bite very hard. ...
which drop down into the Wolga below Casan The sousliks are said to have an ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"Some inhabit the fields, and their holes have a double entrance: others inhabit
granaries, and these are said not to sleep in winter like the field sousliks ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1890)
"Thus, some sixty years ago, the sousliks suddenly disappeared in the neighbourhood
of Sarepta ... and for years no sousliks were seen in that neighbourhood. ..."
4. Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution by Charles Clement Coe (1895)
"Thus, some sixty years ago, the sousliks suddenly disappeared in the neighbourhood
of Sarepta, in South-eastern Russia, in consequence of some epidemics ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"... includes a large number (forty or so) of Palaearctic and Nearctic animals
known as sousliks. The ears are small; there are cheek pouches as in Tamias. ..."
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