单词 | perameles |
释义 | Peramelesn. Zoology. A genus of marsupials comprising the long-nosed bandicoots of Australia (and formerly all other bandicoots); (also perameles) an animal of this genus (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Peramelidae > genus Perameles (bandicoot) bandicoot1827 Perameles1827 marl1941 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom III. 22 The Kanguroo, the Perameles, the Isoodon, the Potoroo. 1841 R. Owen in Trans. Geol. Soc. 6 51 In the Perameles it [sc. a bone] forms a still longer process. 1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 98 Here, too, is that other eccentricity, the ‘rabbit-eared Perameles’. 1965 E. Troughton Furred Animals Austral. (ed. 8) 68 This [sc. the Tasmanian barred-bandicoot] is the largest of the barred Perameles. 1998 Independent (Nexis) 21 Dec. 5 Until last week, the bandicoot was an insectivorous and herbivorous marsupial of the genus Perameles. DerivativesΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Perameline, of or pertaining to the Peramelidæ. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1827 |
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