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Ratlike marsupial
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bandicoot
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Word definitions for bandicoot in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bandicoot \Ban"di*coot\, n. [A corruption of the native name.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of very large rat ( Mus giganteus ), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens. A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles ) of several ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1789, from Telugu pandi-kokku , literally "pig-rat." Properly a large and destructive Indian rat; applied from 1827 to a type of insectivorous Australian marsupial somewhat resembling it.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bandicoots are a group of about 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia . They are endemic to the Australia – New Guinea region.
Usage examples of bandicoot.
I spent the majority of my daylight hours lying on the beach, reading used paperbacks, and most of my nights trying to beat Skip at Crash Bandicoot on his Sony Playstation.
If only because the bandicoot is dying - and the glossy ocelot is expecting, any day now.
I was so ashamed to see: even the dying bandicoot is forced to endure the antics of the flying phalanger.
But there was nothing entered concerning the bandicoot who had been dying - who was either dead or better.
I gave a silent bow to the empty glass house of the bandicoot, already escaped this world.
She wished now that she could find a bandicoot, or if she dared use her little revolver, to shoot some bird by the water-hole.
He had just taken a bandicoot from the hole in the earth in which it had been baking, and was tearing its limbs asunder, reserving the choicest portions for his mistress and himself, while he threw to Unda the least savoury morsels.
When Anne spoke, he brought a thigh of the bandicoot to the door of her gunya, and laid it on a fresh bit of bark which served her as a plate.
Kombo devoured his bandicoot, ruminating the while, and then spoke again.
Anne forced herself to eat a piece of the bandicoot for the sustaining of her strength in preparation for what might come.
Beside him, in the ashes of the dead fire, with a half-consumed damper and a piece of roasted bandicoot, stood the empty billy which had held the drugged tea.
George in Madras, Government used to pay a reward of one anna for every bandicoot killed within the walls.
I found an enormous rat, which I took for a bandicoot, in one of the bath-rooms, and, shutting him in for a while, I closed the doors of a very large room adjoining, which was quite empty, and then turned my friend in with a small black-and-tan terrier.
They sent a bandicoot in search of the iguana, but he met the same fate at the hands of the wallaroo.
After waiting anxiously for the return of the bandicoot, the head-men of the tribe called a great council.