aboriginal name for a Kangaroo-Rat (q.v.). See also Potorousand Roo.
1790. John White, `Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales,'p. 286:
«The Poto Roo, or Kangaroo Rat.» [Figure and description.]«It is of a brownish grey colour, something like the brown orgrey rabbit, with a tinge of a greenish yellow. It has a pouchon the lower part of its belly.»