Bandicoot n. : A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.

Bandicoot n. : A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

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Taxonomy
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Defination from the web:
bandicoot is a common name for any of about 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia. ... More recently, the bandicoot families were reunited in Peramelidae, with the New Guinean species split into four genera in two subfamilies, ...