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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (

Tarsipes rostratus

) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also

noolbenger

See also: tait and 'tait

täit