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wombat

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Wombat
English JS Main: 
wombat
English: 
wombat
Category: 
fauna: mammals
Sub-category: 
wombat
Source: 
Hunter Sketch Book
Page: 
27
Respelt: 
wåm-bad
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
178890
Source Details: 
The Hunter Sketch Book: Birds and Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788 & 90 By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet. General Editor John Calaby. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1989
Comment: 
’wumbad’ = wombat: Colins [Syd]; // MAY BE INAPPLICABLE BB -mb-’

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