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sewellel † [< Chinook shewallal a robe from the skins of the ogwoollal mountain beaver] 
n. a mammal of the western mountain regions, Aplodontia rufa.
See also: mountain beaver
- 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.
- 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.