Wombat Definition

Wombat Sentence Examples

• When they first see the house, Mandy sees a wombat and two babies hiding in a washing basket.

• Outdoor people will enjoy and be intrigued by the wombat story.

• Other terrestrial marsupials are the wombat (Phascolomys), a large, clumsy, burrowing animal, not unlike a pig, which attains a weight of from 60 to 100 lb; the bandicoot (Perameles), a rat-like creature whose depredations annoy the agriculturist; the native cat (Dasyurus), noted robber of the poultry yard; the Tasmanian wolf (Thylacinus), which preys on large game; and the recently discovered Notoryctes, a small animal which burrows like a mole in the desert of the interior.

• In addition to remains referable to the existing genus, the Pleistocene deposits of Australia have yielded evidence of an extinct giant wombat constituting the genus Phascolonus (Sceparnodon).

• It may be added that there are some marsupials, such as the wombat, koala, marsupial ant-eater and the dasyures, FIG.