brush-tailed possum

noun

any of several widely-distributed Australian possums of the genus Trichosurus

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In Australia in recent decades, the bilby, the bettong, or rat kangaroo, the brush-tailed possum and other medium-sized mammals all disappeared from the Western Desert.