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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
originFrom French gerbille, from Latin gerbo, from Arabic جَرْبُوع (jarbūʕ) or يَرْبُوع (yarbūʕ, “jerboa”). Doublet of jerboa.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0