oolacunta

English

Etymology

Aboriginal.

Noun

oolacunta (plural oolacuntas)

1. An extinct marsupial, the desert rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), that lived in a sand-ridge and gibber-plain habitat in south-western Queensland and north-eastern Australia.
   • 2007 July 25, William Grimes, “A Zoologist With a Pouch of Stories”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The fabulous oolacunta, a rat kangaroo that is now extinct, streaked across the desert at speeds that made it seem to float above the ground.