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Noun: bandicoot  'ban-du,koot
  1. Any of various agile, ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
    "The eastern barred bandicoot is an endangered species"

Derived forms: bandicoots

Type of: marsupial, pouched mammal

Part of: family Peramelidae, Peramelidae

Encyclopedia: Bandicoot