释义 |
dunnart /ˈdʌnɑːt /nounA mouse-like insectivorous marsupial with a pointed snout and prominent eyes, found in Australia and New Guinea. Also called marsupial mouse.- Genus Sminthopsis, family Dasyuridae: many species, including the common dunnart (S. murina).
We could go out at night with a spotlight and cast it around and see little gleaming eyes shines all over from Mulgaras and hopping mice and dunnarts and so on....- We then looked at a second species, a little shrew like creature called the dunnart and this has a very different life style.
- These include bush tomato, parakeelya and parrot pea or bird flowers, as well as the dunnart, mala, honeyant, piedish beetle and case moths.
Origin1920s: from Nyungar danart. |