Definition of bandicoot in English:
bandicoot
noun ˈbandɪkuːtˈbændiˌkut
1A mainly insectivorous marsupial native to Australia and New Guinea.
Family Peramelidae: several genera and species. See also rabbit-eared bandicoot
- It is eventually retrieved with the help of a lion and a little-known creature called a bandicoot.
- Of course this brought the local bandicoots out of their lairs where they otherwise spend their time to eat roots, shoots and leaves.
- The diet of bandicoots and bilbies is made up mostly of insects, but they also eat lots of plant material, and sometimes also rodents and lizards.
- Paralysis ticks normally live on native animals such as bandicoots and echidnas.
- This area is known for the small bandicoots and all the little animals and the lizards and everything like that, so we'll drag in some old logs and make it a real natural area for animals.
- Agile wallabies graze on the lawns and bandicoots scamper across the paths then off into the paperbarks.
- The threatened animals include birds such as the ground parrot and eastern quoll and marsupials such as the Eastern barred bandicoot and Tasmanian devil.
- It can be found today in just about every mammal, from human to elephant to bandicoot.
- Some neighbours have indicated that they haven't seen bandicoots in their areas for 20-odd years, and now they're coming back to those areas, so it's very positive signs at this stage.
- As Gondwana broke up, the link was broken, and the Australasian marsupials evolved in isolation, giving rise to the modern groups of koalas, bandicoots, wombats, and kangaroos.
- This marsupial family includes 4 genera and 10 species of bandicoots and bilbies.
- With penguins, albatross, falcons, bandicoots and owls about, Mr Ross said the Harbour and foreshores were ‘a great place to work‘.
- Tragically though, sanctuaries like this are becoming the only place to see creatures such as bilbies, bettongs and bandicoots.
- On Terra these include kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, opossums, and wombats.
- Pig-footed bandicoots were never common, although the species was rather widespread.
- The bandicoot family comprised eleven main species within Australia, two of which are now extinct.
- Bilbies, or rabbit eared bandicoots, are attractive little marsupials with long rabbit-like ears and beautiful silky blue-grey fur and long well furred tails.
- Most paralysis ticks lodge onto passing indigenous species (possums, bandicoots, kangaroos) that are immune to their toxins.
- Possums and bandicoots were hunted for food and skins.
- For example, levels that take place in cold climates will typically make the bandicoots shiver uncontrollably.
- 1.1Indian A bandicoot rat.
- The first time I saw this animal, the closest name I had for it was a bandicoot before I learned it is actually a chipmunk.
- There were mongoose, snakes and bandicoots (large rats).
- It sat glowering at me, upset because half an hour earlier, I had confiscated a small marsupial it had brought in - something between a rat and a bandicoot.
- This order of marsupials includes 2 families, the Peramelidae (bandicoots and bilbies) and Peroryctidae (spiny bandicoots, mouse bandicoot).
- Unfortunately, the only drawing he could obtain was of a specimen that had lost its tail, and his Aboriginal helpers brought him any number of common bandicoots with their tails removed.
Origin
Late 18th century: from Telugu pandikokku, literally 'pig-rat'.
Definition of bandicoot in US English:
bandicoot
nounˈbandēˌko͞otˈbændiˌkut
A mainly insectivorous marsupial native to Australia and New Guinea.
Family Peramelidae: several genera and species, some of which are endangered or extinct, including the short-nosed (or southern brown) bandicoot (Isodon obesulus)
- With penguins, albatross, falcons, bandicoots and owls about, Mr Ross said the Harbour and foreshores were ‘a great place to work‘.
- Pig-footed bandicoots were never common, although the species was rather widespread.
- The threatened animals include birds such as the ground parrot and eastern quoll and marsupials such as the Eastern barred bandicoot and Tasmanian devil.
- Possums and bandicoots were hunted for food and skins.
- Of course this brought the local bandicoots out of their lairs where they otherwise spend their time to eat roots, shoots and leaves.
- Most paralysis ticks lodge onto passing indigenous species (possums, bandicoots, kangaroos) that are immune to their toxins.
- Agile wallabies graze on the lawns and bandicoots scamper across the paths then off into the paperbarks.
- It can be found today in just about every mammal, from human to elephant to bandicoot.
- For example, levels that take place in cold climates will typically make the bandicoots shiver uncontrollably.
- Paralysis ticks normally live on native animals such as bandicoots and echidnas.
- This marsupial family includes 4 genera and 10 species of bandicoots and bilbies.
- Tragically though, sanctuaries like this are becoming the only place to see creatures such as bilbies, bettongs and bandicoots.
- Bilbies, or rabbit eared bandicoots, are attractive little marsupials with long rabbit-like ears and beautiful silky blue-grey fur and long well furred tails.
- On Terra these include kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, opossums, and wombats.
- This area is known for the small bandicoots and all the little animals and the lizards and everything like that, so we'll drag in some old logs and make it a real natural area for animals.
- The bandicoot family comprised eleven main species within Australia, two of which are now extinct.
- As Gondwana broke up, the link was broken, and the Australasian marsupials evolved in isolation, giving rise to the modern groups of koalas, bandicoots, wombats, and kangaroos.
- Some neighbours have indicated that they haven't seen bandicoots in their areas for 20-odd years, and now they're coming back to those areas, so it's very positive signs at this stage.
- The diet of bandicoots and bilbies is made up mostly of insects, but they also eat lots of plant material, and sometimes also rodents and lizards.
- It is eventually retrieved with the help of a lion and a little-known creature called a bandicoot.
Origin
Late 18th century: from Telugu pandikokku, literally ‘pig-rat’.