wombat
/ˈwɑmˌbæt/A stocky burrowing Australian animal whose pouch opens backwards.
Example: A wombat had dug a hole under the fence big enough to crawl through.
B216 words · Upper-intermediate
More Land Mammals vocabulary — B2
A second set of advanced land mammal vocabulary at this level, rounding out the first set with animals like the wombat, yak, chipmunk and mandrill.
16 questions
Words in this set
16yak
/jæk/A shaggy long-haired ox of the high Tibetan plateau.
Example:
Everything we carried up there went on the back of a yak.
chipmunk
/ˈtʃɪpməŋk/A small striped ground squirrel that stuffs its cheeks with seeds.
Example:
A chipmunk emptied the bird feeder in about four minutes flat.
guinea pig
A tailless South American rodent kept as a gentle family pet.
Example:
Their two guinea pigs squeak the moment the fridge door opens.
wildcat
/ˈwaɪldˌkæt/A stocky striped wild feline of Scottish forest, with a blunt banded tail.
Example:
There may be no purebred wildcat left in Britain at all.
caracal
A desert cat with long black tufts on its ears.
Example:
A caracal can take a bird straight out of the air.
serval
A long-legged African cat with large ears.
Example:
The serval hunts by listening rather than by looking.
kudu
A large African antelope with long spiral horns.
Example:
A kudu disappears into thin bush the moment it stands still.
springbok
A small African antelope that leaps straight upwards.
Example:
A springbok bounces on all four legs when it is alarmed.
jerboa
A tiny desert rodent that hops on very long back legs.
Example:
A jerboa can cover two metres in a single hop.
lemming
/ˈlɛmɪŋ/A small Arctic rodent whose numbers rise and crash.
Example:
The whole food chain up there follows the lemming count.
muskrat
/ˈmʌˌskræt/A large water rodent with a flattened tail.
Example:
A muskrat had undermined the bank for thirty metres.
coati
A long-nosed South American animal related to the raccoon.
Example:
A coati went through the campsite bins in broad daylight.
mandrill
/ˈmændrɪl/A large monkey with a brightly coloured face.
Example:
The mandrill is the largest monkey in the world.
quokka
A small Australian marsupial with a friendly-looking face.
Example:
The quokka survives on one island and almost nowhere else.
numbat
A striped Australian marsupial that eats termites.
Example:
A numbat eats twenty thousand termites in a day.
