potoroo

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Theme week: aminals! (Or so the resident preschooler sometimes still calls them.)


potoroo (poh-tuh-ROO) - n., any of several small, ratlike kangaroos (genus Potorous) of Australia.


Cute, too. Etymology is uncertain -- almost certainly an Aboriginal language, probably Dharug, which was spoken in the Sydney-to-Port Jackson area.

---L.