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quoll

quoll

1 9.9
A small meat-eating animal from Australia and New Guinea with a pointed nose and spotted fur
  • noun
  • Australian
: quoll
  • The northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), however, failed to catch any of the monitors.

Examples

  • In Australia, the quoll hunts small animals at night, showcasing its hunting skills.

  • The behavior of these groups and the ways their ecologies overlap suggest that small monitors are, roughly speaking, "dumber than civets but smarter than quolls."

    Academic text (2003)

  • The quoll is a unique marsupial known for its spotted coat and carnivorous diet.

  • The quoll, a carnivorous marsupial, has adapted well to its habitat in the wild.

Synonyms

native cat
vsquoll
  • Australian
1 9.2

A small Australian animal that looks like a cat and carries its babies in a pouch

is the specific animal with a pointed snout and spotted coat rather than a nickname
Dasyurus
vsquoll
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of related meat-eating mammals from Australia and New Guinea called quolls

refers to one species with pointed snout and spotted coat rather than the genus

Surface Forms

quoll singular
quolls plural

Etymology

Quoll comes from an Aboriginal word for this animal, and English borrowed the local name. So quoll still means the small, spotted, night-active 'pouched mammal' native to Australia and New Guinea.