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tarbagan

noun
tar·ba·gan | \¦tärbə¦gan\
plural -s

Definition of tarbagan 

: a pale or reddish gregarious bobac inhabiting the grassy steppes of central Asia

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History and Etymology for tarbagan

Russian, from Teleut

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