quoll
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of quoll
C18: from a native Australian language
Example Sentences
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They injected cane toads too small to kill a quoll with thiabendazole, an antiparasitic agent that induces nausea, and fed them to captive juvenile quolls.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
In Far North Queensland, FNQ Nature Tours takes visitors on day-long treks in search of the spotted-tail quoll — a marsupial that is endangered and, like its cousin the Tasmanian devil, also carnivorous.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2021
Moseby took some dead cats out of a freezer to defrost for stomach-content analysis and went into the laboratory to swab the remains of a quoll to be sent out for DNA tests.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
One of Tasmania’s most prominent tiger-hunting groups, the Thylacine Research Unit, or T.R.U., looked at the images and pronounced the animal a quoll, a marsupial carnivore that looks vaguely like a weasel.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
In writing quoll biology into my novel and a short story, I discovered that artists and writers seek truth as much as scientists do.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
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