单词 | zizel |
释义 | zizeln. Now rare. 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 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 532 In Germany they cal it Pile and Zisel, and of this Germaine word was the Latine Citellus_feigned.] 1775–6 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals IV. 88 The zisel [Fr. zisel] is smaller than the hamster. 1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VIII. 229 The Zisel, or Earless Marmot. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 441/2 The zizel or souslic marmot. 1893 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 20 Other Southern districts [were visited] by zisels and worms. 1941 Jrnl. Parasitol. 27 363 T[richostrongylus] colubriformis, a very common parasite of the sheep, has also been reported from a long series of other hosts, as goat, cattle and other ruminants, horse, squirrel, hare, rabbit, zizel, several kinds of apes and monkeys, and man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1775 |
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