koala

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The reason the koala is called a koala bear is because the koala looks like a teddy bear.

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  1. noun An arboreal Australian marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus) that has dense grayish fur, large ears, and sharp claws and feeds chiefly on the leaves of eucalyptus trees.

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  • But even without the implant, he would still remember the hologram girl and her toy koala, her father's face hollowed out with sorrow. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
  • Yup, call me an interspecies racist, screw the tangelos, and koala-monkeys, down with hipporaffes and manickens. —  Branded in the 80s!
  • Bitch-Bag Bindi also comes with a stereotypical koala, a camera, a bottle, a book, and a stethoscope because clearly (at the age of 11) Bindi is fit to perform medical procedures on animals. —  ImBringingBloggingBack
  • A severe tailback along the Great Ocean Road on the opening day (koala-spotting sure beats counting number-plates on the M25) means we fail to arrive onsite till the Tuesday - as Tourism VIC have decided to station us halfway up a mountain, 75 minutes (on a clear day) drive away. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • The reason the koala is called a koala bear is because the koala looks like a teddy bear. —  xml's Blinklist.com
 

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  1. Probably from misreading of earlier coola, koolah, from Dharuk gula, gulawany.

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  1. Also coala; native Australian.
 

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/kəˈɑlə/
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