pieskomil

English translation: gerbil

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Slovak term or phrase:pieskomil
English translation:gerbil
Entered by: sabinka

18:02 Feb 27, 2009
Slovak to English translations [PRO]
Zoology / pieskomil
Slovak term or phrase: pieskomil
pieskomil
sabinka
gerbil
Explanation:
gerbil
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Vladimir Karoli
Slovakia
Local time: 06:52
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2gerbil
Vladimir Karoli
4Tristram's Jird (Meriones tristrami)
Michal Zugec
4sand rat
Pavel Blann
4Genus: Gerbillus
Maria Chmelarova


  

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gerbil


Explanation:
gerbil



    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriones_unguiculatus
Vladimir Karoli
Slovakia
Local time: 06:52
Native speaker of: Native in SlovakSlovak
PRO pts in category: 4

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Tristram's Jird (Meriones tristrami)


Explanation:
Dutch - Turkse zandmuis (Netherlands);
English - Tristram's Jird;
Finnish - Siinainhyppymyyrä (Finland);
French - Mérione de Tristram (France);
German - Tristram-Rennratte (Germany);
Hungarian - Tristram-versenyegér (Hungary);
Norwegian - Mongolsk ørkenrotte (Norway);
Polish - Myszoskoczka Tristrama (Poland);
Slovak - Pieskomil (Slovakia);
Spanish - Rata del desierto (Spain);

Example sentence(s):
  • When I very first started keeping gerbils and Jirds as a hobby, I was told to remember a very basic rule for classifying gerbils, this being that all Jirds are gerbils, but not all gerbils are Jirds!

    Reference: http://www.egerbil.com/species.html
Michal Zugec
Slovakia
Local time: 06:52
Native speaker of: Slovak
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sand rat


Explanation:
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Pavel Blann
Czech Republic
Local time: 06:52
Native speaker of: Czech
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Genus: Gerbillus


Explanation:
v zool. terminologii

Maria Chmelarova
Local time: 00:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Slovak
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