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prettygoodwordTheme week -- I just happen to have five animal words on my list, so let's line them up. Starting with:
pademelon also paddymelon (PAD-ee-mel-uhn) - n., any of various ground-dwelling marsupials of the genus Thylogale, similar to but smaller than kangaroos and wallabies.
Essentially, those bounders that used to be called small wallabies, as opposed to large wallabies, which are now called just wallabies, but that was too confusing a system so they added a third classification. These tend to live in shrub and brush, as suits their smaller size. The name is altered from badimaliyan, from the Dharuk Aboriginal language, from the region that's now Sydney Harbour.
---L.
pademelon also paddymelon (PAD-ee-mel-uhn) - n., any of various ground-dwelling marsupials of the genus Thylogale, similar to but smaller than kangaroos and wallabies.
Essentially, those bounders that used to be called small wallabies, as opposed to large wallabies, which are now called just wallabies, but that was too confusing a system so they added a third classification. These tend to live in shrub and brush, as suits their smaller size. The name is altered from badimaliyan, from the Dharuk Aboriginal language, from the region that's now Sydney Harbour.
---L.
