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WOMBAT
(redirected from common wombats)

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WOMBAT
A slang acronym for waste of money, brains and time—something which is regarded as uninteresting and/or useless

wombat
a thickset, nocturnal, herbivorous, burrowing marsupial with short legs and no tail. It is solitary and long-lived and peculiar to Australia. Called also Vombatus ursinus.


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Only about 70 are left in the wild, but scientists are looking at the possibility of using common wombats to help create cloned versions of the rare species.
In this period a number of new wombats had arrived at the Regent's Park Zoo: a rare, hairy-nosed wombat on 24 July 1862, and two common wombats despatched from the Melbourne Zoo on 18 March 1863.
 
 
 
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