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koala

[ koh-ah-luh ]

noun

  1. a sluggish, tailless, gray, furry, arboreal marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, of Australia.


koala

/ əʊˈɑːə /

noun

  1. a slow-moving Australian arboreal marsupial, Phascolarctus cinereus, having dense greyish fur and feeding on eucalyptus leaves and bark Also called (Austral)native bear
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of koala1

1800–10; erroneous spelling for earlier koola ( h ) (now obsolete) < Dharuk ú-
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Word History and Origins

Origin of koala1

from a native Australian language
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When she appears to Karsh to deliver some bad news as a koala bear, he politely asks her to stop playing around.

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The koala's watery, red-rimmed eyes are the only sign of the disease at war with his body.

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Blink, and a friend’s little bundle of semi-consciousness has grown to the size of a koala.

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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.

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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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