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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The typical genus of the family Phascolomyidæ, including the wombats. They are inoffensive terrestrial and fossorial herbivorous animals of the Australian region. The genus has two sections —one containing the common and broad-nosed wombats, P. wombat and P. platyrhinus, the other the hairy-nosed wombat, See wombat.
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“On the other hand, of all Marsupials, as Mr Waterhouse has remarked, the phascolomys resembles most nearly, not any one species, but the general order of Rodents.”
“In this case, however, it may be strongly suspected that the resemblance is only analogical, owing to the phascolomys having become adapted to habits like those of a Rodent.”
“On the other hand, of all Marsupials, as Mr. Waterhouse has remarked, the phascolomys resembles most nearly, not any one species, but the general order of Rodents.”
“On the other hand, of all Marsupials, as Mr. Waterhouse has remarked, the phascolomys resembles most nearly, not any one species, but the general order of”
“The various species of kangaroo, phascolomys, dasyurus, and perameles, the flying phalangers, the ornithorynchi, and echidnæ, have astonished naturalists by the strangeness of their conformations, which presented proportions contrary to all former rules, and were incapable of being arranged under any of the systems then in use. ”
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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