单词 | pademelon |
释义 | pademelonn. Originally Australian. Any of several small brush wallabies, esp. one of the genus Thylogale. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > kangaroo > unspecified and miscellaneous types of pademelon1802 brush-kangaroo1830 antelope kangaroo1846 euro1855 blue1968 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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