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Webster 1913 Edition


Bandicoot

Ban′di-coot

,
Noun.
[A corruption of the native name.]
(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.

Definition 2024


bandicoot

bandicoot

English

Model of a bandicoot

Noun

bandicoot (plural bandicoots)

  1. Small Australian marsupial, of the family Peramelidae with a distinctive long snout.
  2. Any of several ratlike marsupial of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia.

Translations


Portuguese

Noun

bandicoot m (plural bandicoots)

  1. bandicoot (small Australian marsupial of the family Peramelidae)