ban|di|coot

ban|di|coot
ban|di|coot «BAN duh koot», noun.
1. a small, burrowing, ratlike marsupial found in Australia and New Guinea. Bandicoots live on insects and carry their young in abdominal pouches.
2. either of two very large, destructive rats of southern Asia and the Near East, about two-feet long.
[< Telugu pandi-kokku (literally) pig rat]

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