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Definition of numbat in English: numbatnoun ˈnʌmbatˈnəmbat A small termite-eating Australian marsupial with a black-and-white striped back and a bushy tail. Myrmecobius fasciatus, family Myrmecobiidae Also called banded anteater Example sentencesExamples - When we started, people didn't know what bilbies and boodies and bettons and numbats were, and now they do.
- I mean, we have an enormous wealth of reptiles, the richest in the world, our insects are amazing, our marsupials, our numbats and our bandicoots and our bilbies - how many people have seen a bilby or know what a bilby is?
- In the Southwestern Australian scrubland, a host of strange - sounding animals could face extinction, including numbats and the squelching froglet.
- The winery has a wetland centre in South Australia where it is also intended to release brush-tailed bettong and numbats later in the year.
- As is true of other dasyuromorphs, numbats are not syndactylous.
Origin Early 20th century: from Nyungar. Definition of numbat in US English: numbatnounˈnəmbat A small termite-eating Australian marsupial with a black and white striped back and a bushy tail. Myrmecobius fasciatus, family Myrmecobiidae Example sentencesExamples - I mean, we have an enormous wealth of reptiles, the richest in the world, our insects are amazing, our marsupials, our numbats and our bandicoots and our bilbies - how many people have seen a bilby or know what a bilby is?
- The winery has a wetland centre in South Australia where it is also intended to release brush-tailed bettong and numbats later in the year.
- When we started, people didn't know what bilbies and boodies and bettons and numbats were, and now they do.
- As is true of other dasyuromorphs, numbats are not syndactylous.
- In the Southwestern Australian scrubland, a host of strange - sounding animals could face extinction, including numbats and the squelching froglet.
Origin Early 20th century: from Nyungar. |