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Jerboa   Listen
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Jerboa  n.  (Written also gerboa)  (Zool.) Any small jumping rodent of the genus Dipus, esp. Dipus Aegyptius, which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries. The jerboas have very long hind legs and a long tail. Note: The name is also applied to other small jumping rodents, as the Pedetes Caffer, of the Cape of Good Hope.
Jerboa kangaroo (Zool.), small Australian kangaroo (Bettongia penicillata), about the size of a common hare.






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"Jerboa" Quotes from Famous Books



... quails, and the crickets, and the jerboa at the door of his sand house, are thrilled into quicker life by David's music. In verse ix. the full joy of living in beasts and men is painted in the midst of landscape after landscape, struck out in single lines,—till all nature seems crowded and ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke



Words linked to "Jerboa" :   Dipodidae, gnawer, Jaculus jaculus, typical jerboa, jerboa kangaroo



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