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Look up: wombat

  1. wombat
    [n] - burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. wombat
    family of the order Phalangeria Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Wombat
    Wom'bat noun [ From the native name, womback , wombach , in Australia.] (Zoology) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys , especially the common species ( P. ursinus ). They...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/47

  4. wombat
    <zoology> Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. Ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots. ... Origin: From the native name, womback, wombach, in Australia. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. wombat
    noun burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Wombat
    • (n.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. wombat
    any of three large terrestrial species of Australian marsupials. Like woodchucks, wombats are heavily built and virtually tailless burrowers with ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/48

  8. wombat
    1. (programming) A metasyntactic variable in Commonwealth Hackish. 2. (computer) wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk. [Jargon File] (1995-03-10)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/wombat

  9. WOMBAT
    Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time. Problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as 'wrestling with a wombat'. See also crawling horror, SMOP. [Jargon File] (1995-03-10)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/WOMBAT

  10. wombat
    wombat, shy marsupial of Australia and Tasmania, related to the koala. The wombat is a thick-set animal with a large head, short legs (giving it a shuffling gait), and a very short tail. It is about 3 ft (91.5 cm) long. Its snout is either naked, as in the species Vombatus ursinus, or furred, as in ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08526

  11. Wombat
    The wombat (Phascolomys) is a genus of nocturnal, herbivorous marsupials of the order Diprotodontia, with three species all confined to Australia and Tasmania. They have massive, clumsy bodies and short thick legs. the head is broad and flat and the tail a mere stump. Each foot has five toes and wit...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  12. wombat
    Any of a family (Vombatidae) of burrowing, herbivorous marsupials, native to Tasmania and southern Australia. They are about 1 m/3.3 ft long, heavy, with a big head, short legs and tail, and coarse fur. The two living species include the common wombat Vombatus ursinus of Tasman...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  13. WOMBAT
    Waste Of Money, Brains And Time
    Found on http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php

  14. Wombat
    `Wombats` are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular in--> in length with a short, stubby tail. They are adaptable in their habitat tolerances, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia, including date = 2011-06-17-->--> that originally in...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat

  15. Wombat
    (TV series) `Wombat` was an award-winning Australian children`s TV show produced at BTQ Channel 7 in Brisbane from 1983 to 1990. It was aired on weekday afternoons, and later Saturday and Sunday mornings, across Australia. The show had a number of hosts who were accompanied by Agro, a ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat

  16. Wombat
    (disambiguation) `Wombats` () are a family of Australian marsupials. `Wombat` or `Wombats` may also refer to: Places : People : Science and technology : Other uses : As an acronym :
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat



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