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wombatlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From wombat + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a wombat (burrowing marsupial).
   • This huge, wombatlike creature was adapted to grazing dry grasslands. 2004, Diagram Group, On the Land, New York: Facts On File, page 49:
   • The ancestors of Australia's varied marsupial family throve here. There were giant possums, huge marsupial lions, and kangaroos. Great wombatlike creatures as big as cows called diprotodons lived there too. 1981, Margaret Rau, Red Earth, Blue Sky: The Australian Outback, New York, N.Y: Crowell, page 5:
   • At that time, Australia was home to a fantastic assortment of enormous animals; these included a wombatlike creature the size of a hippo, a land tortoise nearly as big as a VW Beetle, and the giant short-faced kangaroo, which grew to be ten feet tall. 2012, Lauri S. Friedman, editor, Endangered Species, Greenhaven Press, page 15:

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