(Australia) Any of various rat-sized rodents and marsupials, especially local species of .
2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 18:
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The rodent, , of coastal eastern and southern Australia.
: The noise ceased the moment I crawled into the attic, but something was rotten in the roof, and a putrid smell and pyramids of chewed cardboard suggested that possums or bush rats had nested in boxes stacked with the previous owner's r…
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