Bandicoot
- n. A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.
- n. A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.