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BANDICOOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bandicoot" is a kind of...):
marsupial; pouched mammal (mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bandicoot"):
bilby; Macrotis lagotis; rabbit-eared bandicoot; rabbit bandicoot (bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit)
Holonyms ("bandicoot" is a member of...):
family Peramelidae; Peramelidae (bandicoots)
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