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true bandicoot

true bandicoot noun: any member of the genus Perameles, subfamily Peramelinae, or family Peramelidae of bandicoots.

Noun

true bandicoot (plural true bandicoots)

  1. Any member of the genus Perameles, subfamily Peramelinae, or family Peramelidae of bandicoots.
    • it [Nesokia bandicoota] is usually found to be the large Mus decumanus or perhaps the rarer Nesokia nemorivagus that has been mistaken for the true bandicoot.1891, John Anderson, Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, page 58
    • Examples [of Family Peramelidae].—The true bandicoot (Perameles), remarkable for its allantoic placenta1910, Sir John Arthur Thomson, Outlines of Zoology, page 747

Forms of true bandicoot

pluraltrue bandicoots

Questions about true bandicoot

What does true bandicoot mean?
True bandicoot means any member of the genus Perameles, subfamily Peramelinae, or family Peramelidae of bandicoots.
What part of speech is true bandicoot?
True bandicoot is a noun.
What is the plural of true bandicoot?
The plural of true bandicoot is true bandicoots.

Words near true bandicoot in the dictionary

  1. true anomalies
  2. true anomaly
  3. true as a die
  4. true as I stand here
  5. true as I'm standing here
  6. true bandicoot
  7. true bearing
  8. true bearings
  9. true believer
  10. true believer syndrome
  11. true believers

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