quoll

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quoll (KWOL) - n., any of six cat-sized carnivorous marsupials (Dasyurus) of Australia and New Guinea.



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For a long time called native cat, but the name used by Captain Cook and Joseph Banks (taken from an uncertain north Queensland language, probably Guugu Yimidhirr) for specimens they collected was revived in the mid-20th century to avoid using a misleading name.

---L.

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