Definition of Bandecoot
Ban"di*coot (&?;), n. [A corruption of the
native name.] (Zoöl.) (a) A species of
very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does
much injury to rice fields and gardens. (b) A
ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found
in Australia and Tasmania.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Small Australian marsupial, of the family Peramelidae with a distinctive long snout.
- Any of several ratlike marsupial of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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