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Definition of Potoroo
1. Noun. Australian rat kangaroos.
Definition of Potoroo
1. n. Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.
Definition of Potoroo
1. Noun. Any of several rat kangaroos, of the genus ''Potorous'', from Australia and Tasmania ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potoroo
1. the rat-kangaroo [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potoroo
Literary usage of Potoroo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"hair is grown, its testicles arc in the scrotum. The penis is formed on the verge
of the anus, and is itself external at this age1. THE potoroo ..."
2. A Natural History of the Mammalia by George Robert Waterhouse (1846)
"The present species was first described by Hunter, under the name potoroo, or
Kangaroo-Rat, in the Appendix to White's Journal, ..."
3. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"The upper border of the process extends backward at a more open angle than in
the potoroo or Koala (ib., fig. 3), and to an extent beyond the articular ..."
4. The Practical Teacher by Joseph Hughes (1883)
"Here, however, the resemblance ceases, the mode of progression employed by the
potoroo consisting of a curious gallop, very different from the powerful ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"Marsupialia, containing all the pouched animals except the potoroo and Kangaroo.
ORDER III. — Salientia. Fam. 1. ..."
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