bandicoot
英 ['bændɪkuːt]
美['bændɪkut]
- n. 袋狸
英英释义
- 1. any of various agile rat-like terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
中文词源
bandicoot 袋狸
来自南印度语，词源不详。
英文词源
- bandicoot (n.)
- 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.