Bandicoot

·noun A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

II. Bandicoot ·noun A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.

bandicoot
n. an insect-eating marsupialanimal; family, Peramelidae; genus, Perameles.«The animals of this gen...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
pig-footed bandicoot
n. name given to Choeropus castanotis, Gray, an animal about the sizeof a rabbit, belonging to the ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris