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Synonyms for wombat
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wom-bat |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɒm bæt |
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Définition of wombat
Origin :- marsupial mammal of Australia, 1798, from aboriginal Australian womback, wombar.
- As in foobar : noun metasyntactic variable; whatever
- As in marsupial : noun pouched mammal
- The wombat is an herbivorous animal, which burrows in the ground like a badger.
- Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne
- The Possum turned pale and the Wombat hastily got behind him.
- Extract from : « The Magic Pudding » by Norman Lindsay
- They are now represented only by the Australian wombat (Phascolomys).
- Extract from : « The History of Creation, Vol. II (of 2) » by Ernst Haeckel
- Not a cigar was left, but there was the skeleton of the wombat.
- Extract from : « The Life of James McNeill Whistler » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
- Days passed, weeks passed, months passed, and there was no wombat.
- Extract from : « The Life of James McNeill Whistler » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
- In the Wombat and Koala the tail is small and without chevron bones.
- Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
- The Phascolarctos, or Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), is closely allied to the wombat.
- Extract from : « The Desert World » by Arthur Mangin
- It is, like the Wombat, aberrant in the lack of an obvious tail.
- Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
- In the evening they again endeavoured to catch a wombat, but failed.
- Extract from : « The Book of the Bush » by George Dunderdale
- Now I'm damned if I'm sure I could tell a kangaroo from a wombat.
- Extract from : « Over the Sliprails » by Henry Lawson
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