What is the meaning of Bandicoot?

Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.

A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.

To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.

bandicoot (small Australian marsupial of the family Peramelidae)

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