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sewellel†
[< Chinook shewallal a robe from the skins of the ogwoollal mountain beaver]
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n.
a mammal of the western mountain regions, Aplodontia rufa.
See: mountain beaver
Quotations
1953
The largest of the mouse-like rodents, so called, is the mountain beaver or sewellel. It looks more like a tailless muskrat than a beaver; dark brown, flat headed, with small ears, strong digging claws on its front feet, and almost no tail.