wombat
noun/ˈwɒmbæt/
/ˈwɑːmbæt/
- an Australian animal like a small bear, that carries its young in a pouch (= a pocket of skin) on the front of the mother’s bodyTopics Animalsc2Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Dharuk.
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