Dipusn.
/ˈdʌɪpəs/ Zoology.
a. The typical genus of the jerboas, a race of rodents which progress like the kangaroo, by leaping with the long hinder legs.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Dipodidae (jerboa)
jerboa1662
Dipus1799
1799 B. J. Barton in Trans. Amer. Soc. 4 114 (title) Some account of the American Species of Dipus, or Jarboa.
b. A small marsupial quadruped of Australia, Chæropus castanotis.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Peramelidae > other types
Dipus1849
1849 C. Sturt Narr. Exped. Central Austral. II. 5 Mr. Browne and I had chased a Dipus into a hollow log, and there secured it.
1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 194 The wallabi, the dipus, the talpero, the wombat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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