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Wombat   /wˈɑmbˌæt/   Listen
Wombat

noun
1.
Burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger.





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"Wombat" Quotes from Famous Books



... want something distinctly human to be proud of, we may take the appendix, for man is the only animal that has this in its perfection. A somewhat similarly shriveled last four inches of the caecum is found in the anthropoid apes and in the wombat, a burrowing marsupial of Australia. In some of the monkeys, and in certain rodents like the guinea-pig, a curious imitation appendix is found, which consists simply of a contracted last four or five ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson


Words linked to "Wombat" :   Vombatidae, family Vombatidae, pouched mammal, marsupial


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