单词 | sisel |
释义 | siseln. Any of several Eurasian ground squirrels (genus Spermophilus), esp. the European souslik, S. citellus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Spermophilus (spermophile) > spermophilus citellus (suslik) earless marmot1771 souslik1774 zizel1775 pouched marmot1870 sisel1879 1879 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 93 Of the Old World species the best known is the Sisel, or Suslik (Spermophilus citillus), which is abundant in Central and Eastern Europe, and in Siberia. 1894–5 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. III. 79 The suslik or sisel of North-Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. 1926 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 41 2720 The author..discusses the respective problems of California (ground squirrels), South Africa (gerbilles), South Russia (sisels or spermophiles and mice), and Transbaikalia and Mongolia (tarabagans). 2001 P. E. S. Palmer & M. M. Reeder Imaging Trop. Dis. (ed. 2) II. xxiv. 270/2 In Kurdistan and the central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, mice, sisels, and jerboas are the carriers [of plague]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † siseladj. English regional (northern). Obsolete. Occupied, engaged, busy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [adjective] busylOE sisela1400 importune1449 busied1576 resiant1583 pragmatical1590 doing1591 negotiated1604 practical1617 affairé1802 operative1816 occupied1897 a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Widow's Candle (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Helpes scho tha that turnes noht thair lof hir fra, Bot menskes hir..And er sysel in hir seruyse. a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: St. John & Boy (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Quen halikirc began newli, Sain Ion was sisel and bisi In ordaining of prestes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1879adj.a1400 |
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