sewelleln.
/sɪˈwɛləl/ A small rodent of the Western coast of the United States, Haplodon rufus. Called also mountain-beaver (see mountain beaver n.).
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1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 26 Feb. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1990) VI. 351 Sewelel is the Chinnook and Clatsop name for a small animal found in the timbred country on this coast.
1859 S. 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.
1893 Coues 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.
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