tammar
(ˈtæmə(r))
Also tamma.
[Aboriginal name.]
A greyish-brown scrub wallaby, Thylogale eugenii, found in south-western parts of Australia. Cf. paddymelon.
| [1892 A. Zietz in Trans., Proc., & Rep. R. Soc. S. Austral. 1891–92 XV. 18 Macropus eugenii. Dama or Kangaroo Island Wallaby. 1924 F. W. Jones Mammals S. Austral. ii. 240 The Dama Wallaby group was widely spread over the southern portion of Australia.] 1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks iii. 27 The great days they had spent together, as youngsters, hunting..tammas, in the Paper Bark swamps. 1941 E. Troughton Furred Animals Austral. 193 Dama Pademelon; Tammar. 1970 W. D. L. Ride Guide Native Mammals Austral. v. 48 Tammars are able to survive on food containing little water. 1979 Nature 5 Apr. 549/2, I therefore examined the role of the neural pathway from the mammary gland in tammar wallabies carrying diapausing embryos. |