Definition of Rabbit bandicoot

1. Noun. Bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit.

Exact synonyms: Bilby, Macrotis Lagotis, Rabbit-eared Bandicoot
Generic synonyms: Bandicoot
Group relationships: Genus Macrotis, Macrotis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabbit Bandicoot

rabbinical
rabbinically
rabbinism
rabbinisms
rabbins
rabbis
rabbit
rabbit's-foot fern
rabbit's foot
rabbit-eared
rabbit-eared bandicoot
rabbit-eye blueberry
rabbit-foot
rabbit-proof
rabbit-weed
rabbit bandicoot (current term)
rabbit board
rabbit boards
rabbit brush
rabbit burrow
rabbit bush
rabbit ear
rabbit ear mite
rabbit ear mites
rabbit ears
rabbit fever
rabbit fibroma
rabbit fibroma virus
rabbit food
rabbit foot

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 ..."

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