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单词 koala bear
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koala bear
In full, koala bear. An arboreal marsupial mammal of Australia ( Phascolarctos cinereus), of an ashen-grey colour, small, clumsy, and somewhat resembling a sloth in form, and feeding on the leaves of eucalyptus. Also called the Australian or Native Bear.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Phascolarctidae (koala)
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koala1808
native bear1827
monkey1836
monkey bear1868
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1808 E. Home in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 305 The koala is another species of the wombat. The natives call it the koala wombat; it..was first brought to Port Jackson in August, 1803.
1813 Hist. New S. Wales (1818) 432 The koolah or sloth is likewise an animal of the opossum species, with a false belly.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. xvii. 317 Our coola (sloth or native bear) is about the size of an ordinary poodle dog, with shaggy, dirty-coloured fur, no tail, and claws and feet like a bear.
1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) xiv. 382 The climbing, leaf-eating koala.
1902 Daily Chron. 3 July 3/4 The koala of Australia, has also a very big cæcum.
1937 C. Kearton I visit Antipodes x. 132 The Koala Bear was first seen by a young explorer who journeyed to the Blue Mountains in 1798.
1944 A. Russell Bush Ways xix. 95 There was..scarce a gum tree but that sheltered an opossum or a koala.
1966 G. Durrell Two in Bush v. 173 Fortunately, before it became too late, the Government stepped in and passed laws strictly protecting the Koalas, and slowly over the years their numbers have built up again.
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