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Definition of Pademelon

1. Noun. Small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea.

Definition of Pademelon

1. n. See Wallaby.

Definition of Pademelon

1. Noun. Any of several Thylogale species which are smaller relatives of the kangaroo and wallaby the smallest members of the macropod family, Macropodidae. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Pademelon

1. See Wallaby. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pademelon

Literary usage of Pademelon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Productions, Industry, and Resources of New South Wales by Charles St. Julian, Edward K. Silvester (1853)
"When first started, the pademelon seldom goes far, and his bounds may be distinctly heard by the sportsman. The latter, therefore, if he has failed to get a ..."

2. Outlines of Evolutionary Biology by Arthur Dendy (1912)
"My native guide pointed out where I was to aim, but I only fired at a log from the side of which a pademelon hopped away. Again he pointed, and this time at ..."

3. A Natural History of the Mammalia by George Robert Waterhouse (1846)
"... (pademelon Wallaby,) GOULD, Monogr. Pt. 2, and PI. 6. Fur moderately long and soft: general hue of upper parts brown- grey; under parts white, ..."

4. Animal Products: Their Preparation, Commercial Uses, and Value by Peter Lund Simmonds (1877)
"The wallaby and the pademelon are much smaller, the former inhabiting rocky grounds, and the latter being found exclusively in what is termed brush lands. ..."

5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... the pademelon Kangaroo, pademelon Wallaby of the colonists, inhabits New South Wales. It is a small species, ..."

6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Same as pademelon, melon-blubber (mel'on-blub'èr), n. The melon of a cetacean. See meto»l, 4. melon-cactus (mel'on-kak'tus), n. ..."

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