Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
bettong | a short-nosed rat kangaroo. |
bilby | a burrowing marsupial. |
boongary | a tree kangaroo from Queensland. |
boodie | a species of rat-kangaroo. |
boomer | a large male kangaroo. |
burramys | a rare Australian opossum. |
coala koala | an Australian marsupial. |
dalgyte | another name for the BILBY. |
dasyure | a flesh-eating Australian marsupial mammal. [Gk. dasys, shaggy + oura, tail]. |
dibbler | a small carnivorous Australian marsupial with long snout and short hairy tail. |
didelphid | any member of the marsupial family Didelphidae, the opossums. |
didelphian didelphine didelphous | of or like the Didelphia, the marsupials. |
duckbill duckmole | a platypus. |
dunnart | a marsupial mouse of Australia and Papua New Guinea. |
echidna | a kind of anteater > ECHIDNAE or ECHIDNAS. |
euro | any of several large types of kangaroo, aka WALLAROO > EUROS. |
kangaroo | a large marsupial; (verb) to bound like a kangaroo. |
koolah | an obsolete form of KOALA. |
marmose | a species of small opossum ranging from Mexico to Brazil. |
marsupial marsupian | a member of the Marsupialia, pouched mammals. |
monotreme | a primitive Australian egg-laying mammal, e.g. duck- billed platypus. |
numbat | a small Australian marsupial that feeds on termites. |
opossum | any of various small or medium-sized marsupial mammals, mostly arboreal, of the mainly neotropical family Didelphidae. |
paddymelon pademelon padymelon | any of several small wallabies. |
petaurine | a flying PHALANGER > PETAURINES. |
petaurist | a flying PHALANGER. |
phalanger | any of several kinds of long-tailed Australian marsupial. |
phalangist | any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. |
phascogale | a small insectivorous mouselike marsupial. |
platypus | an egg-laying mammal > PLATYPI or PLATYPUSES. |
potoroo | a kind of small kangaroo, aka kangaroo rat. |
quokka | a small marsupial found in W. Australia. |
quoll | an Australian marsupial, about the size of a cat. |
roo | a kangaroo. |
tammar | a small scrub wallaby. |
tarsiped | a marsupial of the genus Tarsipes. |
thylacine | the Tasmanian wolf. |
tuan | an Australian marsupial, aka WAMBENGER. |
wallaby | any of a number of small marsupials of the family Macropodidae. |
wallaroo | any of several large types of kangaroo. |
wambenger | a small Australian marsupial, aka TUAN. |
wombat | any of three species of Australian burrowing marsupial. |
yapock yapok | an amphibious opossum of South America, the only aquatic marsupial. [From the river Oyapok in French Guiana]. |