Meaning of native cat | Babel Free

Definitions

The quoll; any member of the genus Dasyurus of carnivorous marsupials.

Australia

Examples

“1907, New South Wales Department of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, Volume 17, page 154, We have⟳ found the greatest enemies to be rats, native cats, hawks and crows.”

“The Native Cat, or Tjilpa, is not a real cat but a small marsupial (Dasyurus geoffreyi) with outsize whiskers and a banded tail held vertically above its back.”

“The mesonephros of the native cat is a functional excretory organ at birth which begins to degenerate on day 15 and is completely repressed by day 30 post⟳ partum. In this regard, the native cat does not differ⟳ markedly from other marsupials,[…].”

“Widjingara, the native cat or quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), made the spring⟳ by shaking his shoulders and flinging water from his fur.”

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