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Mountain Beaver

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Noun

1. aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver, sewellel

bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent

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Mountain Beaver

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a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae

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Mountain Beaver

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n.
A stout burrowing rodent (Aplodontia rufa) of the Pacific coast of North America, having small eyes and ears and feeding on vegetation such as ferns and tree seedlings. Also called sewellel.

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