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: any of several stocky burrowing Australian marsupials (genera Vombatus and Lasiorhinus of the family Vombatidae) resembling small bears
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From jumping kangaroos to sleepy koalas to sturdy wombats, Australia is full of a variety of marsupials — animals that carry their premature young in a skin pouch until they are fully developed.
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
The series will travel to see elephants in Borneo navigating treacherous floodwaters, wombats in Australia with fires raging around them, a leopard in Zambia’s Lower Zambezi struggling with a brutal drought and Caribbean flamingos in Mexico facing up to the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
And the country's iconic animals – koalas, wombats and kangaroos – are all marsupials.
—New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
The search for wallabies, wombats, and Tasmanian devils in Cradle Mountain National Park is a classic part of the Tasmanian experience.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
The series will travel to see elephants in Borneo navigating treacherous floodwaters, wombats in Australia with fires raging around them, a leopard in Zambia’s Lower Zambezi struggling with a brutal drought and Caribbean flamingos in Mexico facing up to the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
And the country's iconic animals – koalas, wombats and kangaroos – are all marsupials.
—New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
The search for wallabies, wombats, and Tasmanian devils in Cradle Mountain National Park is a classic part of the Tasmanian experience.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Wombat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wombat. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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wombat
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wom·bat
ˈwüm-ˌbat 
: any of several stocky burrowing Australian marsupials that resemble small bears
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