assapan

Etymology
From, probably , first recorded as assapanick in 1706.

Noun

 * 1)  A , found in the southern and eastern United States.
 * 2) * 1896, Brehm's Life of animals, translated from the third German edition by Pechuel-Loesche, Haacke and Schmidtlein, page 312:
 * A very keen observation, prolonged for some time, is necessary to follow an Assapan at all, to distinguish and understand the purport of its different movements,
 * 1) * 1909, Wallace Rice, Animals: a popular natural history of wild beasts, page 66:
 * Assapans are fond of living in colonies, and where they have not been disturbed come together in great numbers for what can be no other purpose than play.
 * 1) * 1909, Wallace Rice, Animals: a popular natural history of wild beasts, page 66:
 * Assapans are fond of living in colonies, and where they have not been disturbed come together in great numbers for what can be no other purpose than play.

Etymology
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