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US
/ˈdʒɝbɪɫ/
]
[ UK /dʒˈɜːbɪl/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɜːbɪl/ ]
NOUN
- small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
How To Use gerbil In A Sentence
- There was no help for it, he had to be left there, and I went away with an anxious mind as to what his busy teeth would be employed upon all night; and, sure enough, next morning a velvet curtain was found nibbled and tattered, and being converted into a nest for the enterprising gerbille! Wild Nature Won By Kindness
- Smooth, like a Rhapsody: ... what, Manju, no gerbil reference? The Volokh Conspiracy » Prosecution for Insulting Religion — This Time, Buddhism
- For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil. Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-3-2010
- Well, if by that, they’re implicitly drawing a distinction with journalists... aka “gerbilists” they should beknight the guy who invented that term... then it’s a distinction without a difference. The Volokh Conspiracy » Texas Islamic Groups Argue That Internet Speech Should Be Less Protected Than Print, Radio, or Television Speech:
- So from my earliest childhood there was a bond created between myself and my animals, which were little pets like hamsters and gerbils.
- There are many possibilities, especially for comparative research in mole rats, agouti, gerbils and elephant shrews.
- I notice that the new troll, "gerbil", suggests that we "check the ingredients in our hair dye. Elizabeth Edwards: "I Just Have More Confidence" In Hillary On Health Care
- I do think a lot of primary schools have tended to take the pleasure out of education and make kids think they are on a kind of gerbil wheel and that they have to run faster and faster to keep up. Shirley Williams: chair of the judges
- Most of these species are small mammals and include four-toed jerboa (Allactaga tetradactyla, EN), North African gerbil (Gerbillus campestris), James's gerbil (G. jamesi), pale gerbil (G. perpallidus), lesser short-tailed gerbil (G. simoni) and sand gerbil (G. syrticus, CR), fat-tailed gerbil (Pachyuromys duprasi), and Shaw's jird (Meriones shawi). North Saharan steppe and woodlands
- While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion.