BANDICOOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bandicoot mean? 

• BANDICOOT (noun)
  The noun BANDICOOT has 1 sense:

1. any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous

  Familiarity information: BANDICOOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANDICOOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)