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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ban-di-koot
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæn dɪˌkut



Définition of bandicoot

Origin :
  • 1789, from Telugu pandi-kokku, literally "pig-rat." Properly a large and destructive Indian rat; applied from 1827 to a type of insectivorous Australian marsupial somewhat resembling it.
  • As in marsupial : noun pouched mammal
Example sentences :
  • The next person they spied was a Bandicoot carrying a watermelon.
  • Extract from : « The Magic Pudding » by Norman Lindsay
  • They brought back an ample supply, with the addition of a wallaby and a bandicoot.
  • Extract from : « The Young Berringtons » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • Bandicoot (Perameles), a genus of small Australian marsupials.
  • Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 » by Various
  • There is an expression in Australia, "Blind as a bandicoot."
  • Extract from : « The Awful Australian » by Valerie Desmond
  • No bandicoot ever went into his hole with the dogs after him quicker than Jim came out of his.
  • Extract from : « Joe Wilson and His Mates » by Henry Lawson
  • To all the early settlers in the bush the bandicoot is well known.
  • Extract from : « The Book of the Bush » by George Dunderdale
  • We did not see any kangaroos, but got a kangaroo rat and a bandicoot.
  • Extract from : « Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia » by Ludwig Leichhardt
  • And do you for a moment think I am going to be shut up like a bandicoot in a hole, while others fight for life and liberty?
  • Extract from : « The Ruined Cities of Zululand » by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
  • Fig. 353 shows the ileo-colic junction, ccum and proximal segment of the colon in Perameles nasuta, the bandicoot.
  • Extract from : « The Anatomy of the Human Peritoneum and Abdominal Cavity » by George. S. Huntington
  • The enormous ears (whence "Rabbit" Bandicoot) distinguish this genus from Perameles.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard

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