BANDICOOT
Dictionary entry overview: What does bandicoot mean? • BANDICOOT (noun)
The noun BANDICOOT has 1 sense:
1. any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
Familiarity information: BANDICOOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BANDICOOT (noun)
Meaning:
Any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("bandicoot" is a kind of...):
marsupial; pouched mammal (mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bandicoot"):
bilby; Macrotis lagotis; rabbit bandicoot; rabbit-eared bandicoot (bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit)
Holonyms ("bandicoot" is a member of...):
family Peramelidae; Peramelidae (bandicoots)
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