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  • noun Plural form of paddymelon.

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Examples

  • We have a bit of garden close by, and the confounded bandicoots and paddymelons ravage it at nights, and she has just been knocking some over.

    Tom Gerrard Louis Becke 1884

  • The naturalist Ellis Troughton has suggested a threefold division of kangaroolike creatures by size into pademelons (also spelt paddymelons), wallabies, and kangaroos.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

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