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noun any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
originUltimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) + కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of Asian murids, now called bandicoot rats, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0