Meaning of WOMBAT
| Pronunciation: | | 'wâmbat
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| | Definition: | | [n] burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger |
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| | See Also: | | family Vombatidae, marsupial, pouched mammal, Vombatidae | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Wom"bat\, n. [From the native name, womback, wombach, in
Australia.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials
of the genus {Phascolomys}, especially the common species
({P. ursinus}). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed
mostly on roots.
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Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time. Problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as "wrestling with a wombat". See also crawling horror, SMOP. [Jargon File] 1. A metasyntactic variable in Commonwealth Hackish. 2. wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk. [Jargon File]
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