Definition of Susliks

1. Noun. (plural of suslik) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Susliks

1. suslik [n] - See also: suslik

Lexicographical Neighbors of Susliks

suscipiency
suscitability
suscitate
suscitation
suscribe
suses
sushi
sushi bar
sushi bars
sushi roll
sushi rolls
sushilike
sushimi
sushis
susliks (current term)
susoharai
susotori
suspect
suspectable
suspected
suspecter
suspecters
suspectful
suspecting
suspection
suspective
suspectless
suspector
suspectors

Literary usage of Susliks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of Thw by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"The susliks and prairie-dogs are of a khaki colour, like the sand in which ... The prairie-dogs form a kind of connecting-link between the susliks and the ..."

2. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"All species of susliks prefer the open plains for their burrows, which descend from six to eight feet, and have but a single entrance. ..."

3. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"... Culture" layer there is an assemblage of pure steppe forms, susliks, dwarf picas and wild horses, all pointing to the absence of forests; hut at the top ..."

4. With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898)
"... but nothing could be seen. The Cossack trenches were quiet, the last light in them quenched. " They might be caught napping now, like susliks," muttered ..."

5. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1904)
"Among smaller mammals we observe an entire lack of true shrews, musk-shrews, moles, marmots, susliks, chipmunks or striped ground- squirrels, beavers, ..."

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