"oolacunta" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: oolacuntas [plural]
Etymology: Aboriginal. Head templates: {{en-noun}} oolacunta (plural oolacuntas)
  1. An extinct marsupial, the desert rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), that lived in a sand-ridge and gibber-plain habitat in south-western Queensland and north-eastern Australia. Wikipedia link: oolacunta Categories (lifeform): Macropods

Inflected forms

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