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native cat

noun

Definitions

  1. The quoll

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

    • 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.

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