bandicoot

[ US /ˈbændiˌkut, ˈbændɪˌkut/ ]
[ UK /bˈændɪkˌuːt/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
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How To Use bandicoot In A Sentence

  • The company which values its boodies, bandicoots and other animals on its balance sheet, issued shares at A $2.50 when it listed.
  • I mean, we have an enormous wealth of reptiles, the richest in the world, our insects are amazing, our marsupials, our numbats and our bandicoots and our bilbies - how many people have seen a bilby or know what a bilby is?
  • Of the 26 species of threatened Australian mammals, 5 are found on Bernier and Dorre islands; burrowing bettong Bettongia lesueur, rufous hare-wallaby Lagorchestes hirsutus, banded hare-wallaby L. fasciatus, Shark Bay mouse Pseudomys praeconis and western barred bandicoot Perameles bougainville. Shark Bay, Australia
  • Cats carry the disease Toxoplasmosis, which can be transmitted to the bandicoots and is often fatal.
  • This order of marsupials includes 2 families, the Peramelidae (bandicoots and bilbies) and Peroryctidae (spiny bandicoots, mouse bandicoot).
  • Unfortunately, the only drawing he could obtain was of a specimen that had lost its tail, and his Aboriginal helpers brought him any number of common bandicoots with their tails removed.
  • It sat glowering at me, upset because half an hour earlier, I had confiscated a small marsupial it had brought in - something between a rat and a bandicoot.
  • Animals that most people in the area had never seen-such as the squirrel-sized kangaroo known as a potoroo, the rabbit-eared bandicoot or bilby, and the platypus-were back and reproducing in the refuge.
  • Most paralysis ticks lodge onto passing indigenous species (possums, bandicoots, kangaroos) that are immune to their toxins.
  • Tragically though, sanctuaries like this are becoming the only place to see creatures such as bilbies, bettongs and bandicoots.
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