Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kangaroo-rat; any species of Hypsiprymnus. See cut under
kangaroo-rat .
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These include four species of ringtail possum (Petauridae), Australia's only two tree-kangaroo species Dendrolagus lumholtzi and D. bennettianus, and the musky rat-kangaroo Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, which is the smallest and in many respects the most primitive of the macropods.
Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008
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Amongst the ashes many bones could be seen, particularly the lower maxillary of some species of rat-kangaroo.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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