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koala
[ koh-ah-luh ]
noun
- a sluggish, tailless, gray, furry, arboreal marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, of Australia.
koala
/ kəʊˈɑːlə /
noun
- a slow-moving Australian arboreal marsupial, Phascolarctus cinereus, having dense greyish fur and feeding on eucalyptus leaves and bark Also called (Austral)native bear
Word History and Origins
Origin of koala1
Word History and Origins
Origin of koala1
Example Sentences
Blink, and a friend’s little bundle of semi-consciousness has grown to the size of a koala.
Like other organisms, some yeasts have evolved to be specialists -- think koalas, which eat nothing but eucalyptus leaves -- while others are generalists like raccoons, which eat just about anything.
More than a dozen koalas were convalescing in open-air enclosures, wrapping their woolly arms around the trunks of eucalyptus trees.
It is the birthplace of songbirds, the land of egg-laying mammals and the world capital of pouch-bearing marsupials, a group that encompasses far more than just koalas and kangaroos.
“Koala Lou,” also by Ms. Fox, tells the story of a young koala wrestling with the arrival of a new sibling.
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