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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

(Zool.)

Any small kangaroo belonging to

Hypsiprymnus

Bettongia

, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also

kangaroo rat

Potorous tridactylus (long-nosed potoroo)

potoroo ‎(plural potoroos)

Any species of the genus Potorous of the rat kangaroo family Potoroidae, endemic to Australia.

marsupial of the genus Potorous'