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Etymology
From Marathi अस्वल (asval) or a related term in another Indian language.
Noun
aswail (plural not attested)
- (dated) The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), an India bear.
1832, William Henry Sykes, A Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds Observed in Dukhun:An Aswail brought to me from the woods when quite young, and which lived some time in my possession, fed by choice almost exclusively upon roast mutton and fowl; rejecting all fruits and vegetables.
1953, Dirk Pieter Erdbrink, A Review of Fossil and Recent Bears of the Old World, volume 1:[…] mutilated parts of an Aswail from Ceylon together with parts of a three-toed Sloth […]
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