单词 | boodie rat |
释义 | > as lemmasboodie rat More fully boodie rat. A burrowing bettong, Bettongia lesueur, formerly found throughout mainland Australia but now considered rare or extinct except on islands off the coast of Western Australia.The status of quot. 1840 is uncertain: see note in etymology. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > rat-kangaroo kangaroo-rat1788 boodie1842 1840 Hooker's Jrnl. Bot. 2 362 The native Burdit also burrows in the ground or lives in holes in the rocks.] 1842 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) II. Pl. 12 This bird chooses for its nest the deserted hole of either the Dalgyte (Perameles lagotis) or the Boodee (a species of Bettongia). 1863 J. Gould Mammals Austral. II. Pl. 64 Hypsiprymnus (Bettongia) Lesueuri..Boor-dee... The Boor-dee is exclusively a nocturnal feeder, and..one of the most destructive animals to the garden of the settler in Western Australia. 1897 L. Lindley-Cowen West Austral. Settler's Guide 33 Boodie rats..do some damage among the fruit trees and cereal crops. 1924 D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner Boy in Bush vii. 96 Little hunts of wallabies or bandicoots or bungarras, or boody-rats. 1963 New Scientist 3 Jan. 12 Boodies apparently emit a series of grunts and chuckles when chased. 1975 R. Beilby Brown Land Crying 271 The orange-tinted, calcined earth was stamped with the prints of wallabies and boodie rats. 2011 Countryman (W. Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Jan. 33 We heard the distinctive hop-hop-hop of a boodie as it made its way to the small amount of feed placed on the ground. < as lemmas |
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