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pademelon
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pademelon has 1 sense
- pademelon(n = noun.animal) paddymelon - small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea; Array is a kind of brush kangaroo, wallaby
is a member of genus thylogale, thylogale
CIDE DICTIONARY
pademelon, n.
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 [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pademelon, n. any small wallaby of the genus Thylogale, inhabiting the coastal scrub of Australia.
Etymology
corrupt. of an Aboriginal name
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