Bandicoot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several large rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia.
  • n. Any of several ratlike marsupials of the family Peramelidae, of Australia and adjacent islands, that feed on insects and plants and have a long, tapering snout and elongated hind legs.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Small Australian marsupial, of the family Peramelidae with a distinctive long snout.
  • n. Any of several ratlike marsupial of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
  • n. A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The Anglo-Indian name of the Mus giganteus of Hard-wicke, a large Indian rat, upward of 2 feet long including the tail, and weighing 2 or 3 pounds.
  • n. The Anglo-Australian name of any marsupial animal of the family Peramelidæ. Also called bandicoot rat.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
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