Synonyms for bandicoot

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ban-di-koot

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæn dɪˌkut

Définition of bandicoot

Origin : 1789, from Telugu pandi-kokku, literally "pig-rat." Properly a large and destructive Indian rat; applied from 1827 to a type of insectivorous Australian marsupial somewhat resembling it.

As in marsupial : noun pouched mammal

Example sentences :

The next person they spied was a Bandicoot carrying a watermelon.
Extract from : « The Magic Pudding » by Norman Lindsay

They brought back an ample supply, with the addition of a wallaby and a bandicoot.
Extract from : « The Young Berringtons » by W.H.G. Kingston

Bandicoot (Perameles), a genus of small Australian marsupials.
Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 » by Various

There is an expression in Australia, "Blind as a bandicoot."
Extract from : « The Awful Australian » by Valerie Desmond

No bandicoot ever went into his hole with the dogs after him quicker than Jim came out of his.
Extract from : « Joe Wilson and His Mates » by Henry Lawson

To all the early settlers in the bush the bandicoot is well known.
Extract from : « The Book of the Bush » by George Dunderdale

We did not see any kangaroos, but got a kangaroo rat and a bandicoot.
Extract from : « Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia » by Ludwig Leichhardt

And do you for a moment think I am going to be shut up like a bandicoot in a hole, while others fight for life and liberty?
Extract from : « The Ruined Cities of Zululand » by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley

Fig. 353 shows the ileo-colic junction, ccum and proximal segment of the colon in Perameles nasuta, the bandicoot.
Extract from : « The Anatomy of the Human Peritoneum and Abdominal Cavity » by George. S. Huntington

The enormous ears (whence "Rabbit" Bandicoot) distinguish this genus from Perameles.
Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard

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