jerboa
noun/dʒɜːˈbəʊə/
/dʒɜːrˈbəʊə/
- a rat with very long back legs, which lives in deserts in Africa, the Middle East and AsiaWord Originmid 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Arabic yarbū“.
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