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单词 pademelon
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pademelonn.

Brit. /ˈpadɪmɛlən/, U.S. /ˈpædiˌmɛlən/, Australian English /ˈpædimelən/
Forms: 1800s paddymalla, 1800s paddymellon, 1800s paddymellor, 1800s paddy-mellun, 1800s pademella, 1800s pademellan, 1800s padgymelon, 1800s padymelon, 1800s patty mellon, 1800s pedmelon, 1800s– paddymelon, 1800s– pademelon, 1900s paddy mellen, 1900s– paddamelon, 1900s– paddimelon, 1900s– padmelon. N.E.D. (1904) also records a form paddiemelon.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably a borrowing from Dharuk. Etymons: Dharuk badimaliyan, badagarang.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably an alteration of Dharuk (Sydney region) badimaliyan wallaby or badagarang eastern grey kangaroo: see E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) 336/2.
Originally Australian.
Any of several small brush wallabies, esp. one of the genus Thylogale.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > kangaroo > unspecified and miscellaneous types of
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brush-kangaroo1830
antelope kangaroo1846
euro1855
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1802 Banks Papers 1 June VIII. 103 Patty mellon. It is of reddish colour and much inferior in size to the forest one.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. xvii. 310 The wallabee and paddymalla..inhabit the brushes and broken hilly country.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 23 Feb. 8/1 Kangaroos, Wallabies, Kangaroo rats, Wombats, Bandicoots, Pademelons.
1925 M. Gilmore Tilted Cart 33 There the timid paddymelon Made his nest so soft and round.
1977 W. A. Winter-Irving Bush Stories 91 What we called the padmelons, small kangaroo rats..were numerous and..would explode from a scrubby bush, hopping in panic to escape a passing rider and sometimes collide with the horses.
2004 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 Jan. 8 Suddenly a kangaroo appears amongst the tiny pademelons in my backyard and holds my stare intensely.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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