Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus of Australia and New Guinea, having a pointed snout, long tail, and spotted coat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Australian marsupial mammal, Dasyurus macrurus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A marsupial of Australia (
Dasyurus macrurus ), about the size of a cat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the various
carnivorous marsupials of thegenus Dasyurus found inAustralia andNew Guinea , roughly the size of acat .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A cat-sized marsupial called a quoll has a habit of feasting on toxic cane toads.
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A cat-sized marsupial called a quoll has a habit of feasting on toxic cane toads.
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A cat-sized marsupial called a quoll has a habit of feasting on toxic cane toads.
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Species likely to be deemed most at risk include the endangered northern quoll, which is now extinct in some areas after the arrival of cane toads.
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A cat-sized marsupial called a quoll has a habit of feasting on toxic cane toads.
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I just learned that there is an animal native to Australia called the "quoll".
Blogtimore, Hon 2009
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In the cartoon, the guys travel the world for encounters with creatures that are familiar (crocodiles, worms, a platypus and pigeons) and some not so familiar (a conehead katydid, a tiger quoll and the recently discovered colossal squid).
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Thought extinct on mainland Australia since 1963, a couple of eastern quoll have been found DOR near Melbourne.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU).
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Several mammal species, including bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) and golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus VU), have declined or disappeared altogether from this ecoregion.
chained_bear commented on the word quoll
The ‘native cat’ (Dasyurus macrurus) of Australia.
Edit: see Prolagus's linked article on spine-decalcifying for a usage (it's all the way at the end of the article).
February 16, 2007
bilby commented on the word quoll
Ahahahaha do you think any predators ever catch clever and sprightly bilbies ahahahaha of course they do :-(
March 11, 2015
bilby commented on the word quoll
Endangered.
SO YOU'D BETTER BE NICE TO ME.
March 11, 2015