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Definition of Rabbit bandicoot
1. Noun. Bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit.
Generic synonyms: Bandicoot
Group relationships: Genus Macrotis, Macrotis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabbit Bandicoot
Literary usage of Rabbit bandicoot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1904)
"... if rabbit-bandicoot, it develops slowly ; if carpet snake, she swells out
behind ; and if wild turkey or its eggs, the child dies inside her body. ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"There are two kinds, the rat and the rabbit bandicoot." "The common people are
not destitute of what Wordsworth calls 'the poetry of common speech,' many of ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"There are two kinds, the rat and the rabbit bandicoot." "The common people are
not destitute of what Wordsworth calls 'the poetry of common speech,' many of ..."
4. Across Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1912)
"... which are worn hanging down over the forehead or suspended from the waist
girdle, and are made from the tail tips of the rabbit-bandicoot ..."
5. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"In some parts of Australia it is called the native rabbit. Bandicoot Rat. This is
the largest known species of rat, often exceeding a foot in length. ..."
6. Sketch of the History of Van Diemen's Land by James Bischoff (1832)
"There are two kinds, the rat and the rabbit bandicoot, they both burrow in the
earth, and live upon roots and plants. The flesh of the latter is white and ..."