bandicoot
(noun) any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bandicoot (plural bandicoots)
A small Australian marsupial with a distinctive long snout, of the family Peramelidae.
Any of several rat-like rodents of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia.
bandicoot (third-person singular simple present bandicoots, present participle bandicooting, simple past and past participle bandicooted)
(AU, informal) To steal growing vegetables from a garden.
Source: Wiktionary
Ban"di*coot, n. Etym: [A corruption of the native name.] (Zoöl.) (a) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens. (b) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 May 2025
(adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
