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‖ Dipus Zool.|ˈdaɪpəs|
[mod.L., ad. Gr. δίπους two-footed.]
a. The typical genus of the jerboas, a race of rodents which progress like the kangaroo, by leaping with the long hinder legs.
b. A small marsupial quadruped of Australia, Chæropus castanotis.
1799B. J. Barton in Trans. Amer. Soc. IV. 114 (title) Some account of the American Species of Dipus, or Jarboa. 1849C. Sturt Exp. Centr. Austral. II. 5 Mr. Browne and I had chased a Dipus into a hollow log, and there secured it. 1859Cornwallis New World I. 194 The wallabi, the dipus, the talpero, the wombat. |