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Definition of Susliks
1. suslik [n] - See also: suslik
Lexicographical Neighbors of Susliks
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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