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koala
[ koh-ah-luh ]
noun
- a sluggish, tailless, gray, furry, arboreal marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, of Australia.
koala
/ əʊˈɑːə /
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
When she appears to Karsh to deliver some bad news as a koala bear, he politely asks her to stop playing around.
The koala's watery, red-rimmed eyes are the only sign of the disease at war with his body.
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.
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