Word.ws English Dictionary

bandicoots

bandicoots is the plural of bandicoot.

Meaning of bandicoot

Noun

bandicoot (plural bandicoots)

  1. Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.
    • At the rustle of a bandicoot we noticed the upraised gleam of eyes around the fires.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 149
  2. A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.

See all 3 meanings of bandicoot

Phrases with bandicoots

Questions about bandicoots

What is bandicoots the plural of?
Bandicoots is the plural of bandicoot.

Words near bandicoots in the dictionary

  1. bandicoot
  2. bandicoot rat
  3. bandicoot rats
  4. bandicooted
  5. bandicooting
  6. bandicoots
  7. bandicoy
  8. bandied
  9. bandied about
  10. bandied around
  11. bandied words

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bandicoots (page history and authors); bandicoot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bandicoots.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bandicoots. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.