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单词 numbat
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Definition of numbat in English:

numbat

noun ˈnʌmbatˈnəmbat
  • A small termite-eating Australian marsupial with a black-and-white striped back and a bushy tail.

    袋食蚁兽。亦称BANDED ANTEATER

    Myrmecobius fasciatus, family Myrmecobiidae

    Also called banded anteater
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When we started, people didn't know what bilbies and boodies and bettons and numbats were, and now they do.
    • I mean, we have an enormous wealth of reptiles, the richest in the world, our insects are amazing, our marsupials, our numbats and our bandicoots and our bilbies - how many people have seen a bilby or know what a bilby is?
    • In the Southwestern Australian scrubland, a host of strange - sounding animals could face extinction, including numbats and the squelching froglet.
    • The winery has a wetland centre in South Australia where it is also intended to release brush-tailed bettong and numbats later in the year.
    • As is true of other dasyuromorphs, numbats are not syndactylous.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Nyungar.

Definition of numbat in US English:

numbat

nounˈnəmbat
  • A small termite-eating Australian marsupial with a black and white striped back and a bushy tail.

    袋食蚁兽。亦称BANDED ANTEATER

    Myrmecobius fasciatus, family Myrmecobiidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I mean, we have an enormous wealth of reptiles, the richest in the world, our insects are amazing, our marsupials, our numbats and our bandicoots and our bilbies - how many people have seen a bilby or know what a bilby is?
    • The winery has a wetland centre in South Australia where it is also intended to release brush-tailed bettong and numbats later in the year.
    • When we started, people didn't know what bilbies and boodies and bettons and numbats were, and now they do.
    • As is true of other dasyuromorphs, numbats are not syndactylous.
    • In the Southwestern Australian scrubland, a host of strange - sounding animals could face extinction, including numbats and the squelching froglet.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Nyungar.

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