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Koala   /koʊˈɑlə/   Listen
Koala

noun
1.
Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark.  Synonyms: kangaroo bear, koala bear, native bear, Phascolarctos cinereus.





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"Koala" Quotes from Famous Books



... asked the animal in a meek voice. "I never heard that before. I thought I was a Koala. I've always been told so, but of course one never knows oneself. What are ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley
... positions? How curious it is, to give a subordinate though striking instance, that the hind feet of the kangaroo, which are so well fitted for bounding over the open plains—those of the climbing, leaf-eating koala, equally well fitted for grasping the branches of trees—those of the ground-dwelling, insect or root-eating, bandicoots—and those of some other Australian marsupials—should all be constructed on the same extraordinary type, namely with the bones of the second and third ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Koala" :   opossum, native bear, possum, phalanger


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