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bilby|ˈbɪlbɪ|
[Prob. Australian Aboriginal name.]
An Australian nocturnal burrowing marsupial with blue-grey fur; rabbit-bandicoot. Also attrib., as bilby-hole.
1903‘T. Collins’ Such is Life 240 There happened to be a bilby-hole close in front, and she fell in the sort of trough, with her head down the slope. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 58 Holes made by the Australian marsupial ‘rabbit’ or bilby. |