Crossword clues for gerbil
gerbil
- Burrowing pet
- Furry pet
- Playful rodent
- Animal in an exercise wheel
- Pet store offering
- Small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
- Burrowing rodent
- Furry pet rabbit regularly feeds on getting up
- Rodent kept as pet
- Burrowing desert rodent
- Besides which, I do like to be singing about Tottenham's first reserve
- Desert rodent, often kept as a pet
- Desert rat free, according to the Spanish generals, initially taken aback
- Pet rodent
- Small pet
- Pet on a wheel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gerbil \Ger"bil\ (j[~e]r"b[i^]l), Gerbille \Ger`bille"\ (zh[asl]r`b[-e]l"), n. [F. gerbille. Cf. Jerboa.]
(Zo["o]l.) One of several species of small, jumping, murine burrowing rodents, of the genus Gerbillus and related genera of the subfamily Gerbillinae. They have long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe.
(Zo["o]l.) A rodent ( Meriones unguiculatus) of the subfamily Gerbillinae that is commonly kept as a pet; it is also called the tamarisk gerbil, sand rat and jird. Its natural habitats are the dry regions of Northern Africa and Asia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1849, from French gerbille, from Modern Latin Gerbillus, the genus name, from gerbo, from Arabic yarbu. Earlier English form, jarbuah (1660s), was directly from Arabic.
Wiktionary
n. One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus (taxlink Gerbillus genus noshow=1). In their leaping powers they resemble the jerbo
They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe. v
1 To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking. 2 (context slang English) To insert a small animal into the rectum of a person.
WordNet
n. small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping [syn: gerbille]
Wikipedia
A gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. Once known simply as "desert rats", the gerbil subfamily includes about 110 species of African, Indian, and Asian rodents, including sand rats and jirds, all of which are adapted to arid habitats. Most are primarily diurnal (though some, including the common household pet, do exhibit crepuscular behavior), and almost all are omnivorous.
The word "gerbil" is a diminutive form of " jerboa", though the jerboas are an unrelated group of rodents occupying a similar ecological niche.
One Mongolian species, Meriones unguiculatus, also known as the clawed jird, is a gentle and hardy animal that has become a popular pet. It was first brought from China to Paris, France, in the 19th century, and became a popular house pet. It was then brought to the United States in 1954 by Dr. Victor Schwentker for use in research.
Gerbils are typically between long, including the tail, which makes up about one-half of their total length. One species, the great gerbil, or Rhombomys opimus, originally native to Turkmenistan, can grow to more than . The average adult gerbil weighs about .
A gerbil is a small rodent commonly kept as a pet.
Gerbil may also refer to:
- A tool that is used in cutting vacuum forming sheets, also called a Gerbil
- The Gerbils, an indie rock band from Athens, Georgia
- Pierre-Yves Gerbeau, French businessman, nicknamed the Gerbil by British media
- Gerbil (software), an open-source hyperspectral visualization and analysis framework
Usage examples of "gerbil".
Geno reached over and gave Gerbil a swat on the back, but the gnome did not visibly react.
Kelsey and Gerbil to Gondabuggan, the valiant steed that had nearly given its life for the exhaustion.
An improbable sign in the window of My Pet caught his eye: come on in and join our gerbil riot!
Curt ignores him and pulls the plastic gerbil condo out of the car, waggling it gently back and forth to get it past the big steering wheel.
The camera makes a herky-jerky pan away from her, traveling along the empty corridor to the empty gerbil gym at the far end.
For just a moment he made me think of Roslyn the gerbil turning to look into the lens of the video camera, eyes bright and whiskers twitching.
Leaving the door an inch open he returned to the gerbil which regarded him with sleepy nonchalance but, at the moment he crouched to pick it up, darted away from his hand.
The gerbil appeared in a hurry, thrusting its nose from the crevice between the seat and the back of the sofa.
John the gerbil, free from his hideaway, ran across the sofa down to the floor and swerved between their legs.
The gerbil, sensing the shifting season, scrambled from the guts of the sofa to the floor where he squatted preening himself as though expecting a guest.
Her fake fur had become a bed for the gerbil, out on the balcony of the side window.
She smirked but uncertainly, holding the gerbil in front of her like a protection.
Korky sat subdued on the sofa, stroking the gerbil who still regarded Savage with caution and visibly cringed at his raised voice.
The gerbil was installed in a hutch on the tight balcony of the side window which faced east and received the sun until almost afternoon.
The gerbil, sensing an involvement in the excitement, sniffed around her feet.