What is "kowari"

n. A small carnivorous rat-like marsupial, (taxlink Dasyuroides byrnei species noshow=1), endemic to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia.

The kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei), also known as the brush-tailed marsupial rat, Kayer rat, Byrne's crest-tailed marsupial rat, bushy-tailed marsupial rat and kawiri, is a small carnivorous marsupial native to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia. It is monotypical of its genus.

A kowari is an Australasian marsupial.

Kowari may also refer to:

• KOWARI - Residual-Stress Diffractometer, a neutron diffractometer at OPAL, Australia's research reactor
• Kowari (software), an open-source metadata database written in Java