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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PADEMELON

PADEMELON Pad `e *mel "on, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Wallaby.

New American Oxford Dictionary

pademelon

pad e mel on |ˈpadēˌmelən ˈpædiˌmɛlən |(also paddymelon ) ▶noun a small wallaby inhabiting the coastal scrub of Australia and New Guinea. [Genus Thylogale, family Macropodidae: three species. ] ORIGIN early 19th cent. (earlier as paddymelon ): probably an alteration of Dharuk badimalion.

Oxford Dictionary

pademelon

pademelon |ˈpadɪˌmɛlən |(also paddymelon ) ▶noun a small wallaby inhabiting the coastal scrub of Australia and New Guinea. Also called scrub wallaby. ●Genus Thylogale, family Macropodidae: three species. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (earlier as paddymelon ): probably an alteration of Dharuk badimalion.