Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small macropods of the genus Thylogale of New Guinea, Australia, and adjacent islands, having short thick tails and sometimes considered to be small wallabies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brush-kangaroo or whallabee; an ordinary kangaroo of the genus Halmaturus, such as H. thetidis and related species. See cut under
Halmaturus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any of several small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea, especially those belonging to the genus Thylogale; a paddymelon. See
wallaby
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several Thylogale species which are smaller relatives of the
kangaroo andwallaby the smallest members of themacropod family,Macropodidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term pademelon varies regionally in its application but may be taken to be a small wallaby.
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Her mate would normally have done the hunting then, bringing whole birds or a pademelon or the bloody haunch of a kangaroo to the lair.
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Her mate would normally have done the hunting then, bringing whole birds or a pademelon or the bloody haunch of a kangaroo to the lair.
Hunting the Thylacine Geoffrey Fox 2009
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It has not yet been determined by baraminologists whether kangaroos form a holobaramin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic.
Animals 2009
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Red-legged pademelon (Thylogale stigmatica), Australia.
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The Tasmanian pademelon was once found on mainland Australia but was eradicated due to loss of habitat and overhunting for meat and pelts.
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The dusky pademelon (Thylogale bruinji) and New Guinea quoll (Dasyurus albopunctatus) are considered vulnerable.
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Three of these species, the Papuan planigale (Planigale novaeguineae), the bronze quoll (Dasyurus spartacus), and the dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii) are considered vulnerable.
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The Moluccan mouse-eared bat (Myotis stalkeri) is endangered, whereas the dusky pademelon (Thylogale bruinii), and brown-bearded sheathtail bat (Taphozous achates) are considered vulnerable.
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The dusky pademelon is the only macropodid (kangaroo) found in the Banda Sea islands (Kai), although it is also found in the Aru Islands and the Trans Fly of New Guinea.
sionnach commented on the word pademelon
A species of marsupial, similar to the wallaby.
October 8, 2007
bilby commented on the word pademelon
As I described to a friend the other day, a giant, flat-footed, ravenous pseudo-rabbit.
February 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word pademelon
One time they got into my garden they chewed metre-high jerusalem artichoke plants back to just a stubble. Well I hope they farted all night.
February 9, 2024