numbat in English

noun
1
a small termite-eating Australian marsupial with a black and white striped back and a bushy tail.
I mean, we have an enormous wealth of reptiles, the richest in the world, our insects are amazing, our marsupials, our numbats and our bandicoots and our bilbies - how many people have seen a bilby or know what a bilby is?
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1. The numbat, a marsupial, is also likely to lose its habitat in the forests of south-western Australia.

2. By doing this, it is possible to show that the tiger's closest living relative is another marsupial called a numbat .

3. 13 synonyms for Anteater: pangolin, scaly Anteater, New World Anteater, aardvark, Orycteropus afer, ant bear, banded Anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat