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Bandicoot   Listen
noun
Bandicoot  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
(b)
A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bandicoot" Quotes from Famous Books



... spied was a Bandicoot carrying a watermelon. At a first glance you would have thought it was merely a watermelon walking by itself, but a second glance would have shown you that the walking was being done by a small pair of legs attached to ...
— The Magic Pudding • Norman Lindsay

... know when I've got a soft thing on?" Jake took off his apron, and hung it on a nail. "Shan't want that, for a month or two anyway." Then he faced the "boss" with, "Equal whacks, you old bandicoot. I'll find the tucker, ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... In all those caves in which I found native paintings were representations either of kangaroo hunts, or of men bringing down these animals dead on their shoulders; and many a hollow tree bore witness of its having been smoked in order to drive forth to certain death the trembling opossum or bandicoot rat which had taken refuge ...
— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2) • George Grey

... rat mentioned here was probably a "Bandicoot," "Boody," or "Bilby," the scientific name of which I do not know; I have never seen one, only their burrows, and these have always shown every appearance of being unoccupied. Most of the burrows that I have seen have been in a low mound, perhaps 30 feet ...
— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie



Words linked to "Bandicoot" :   bandicoot rat, rabbit bandicoot, marsupial, bilby, rabbit-eared bandicoot, pouched mammal, family Peramelidae, Macrotis lagotis



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