Woylie vs Mala - What's the difference?
woylie | mala |
(Australia) A species of bettong, Bettongia penicillata .
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A single lobe of an insect's maxilla.
The grinding surface of an insect's mandible.
A bead or a set of beads commonly used by Hindus and Buddhists for keeping count while reciting, chanting, or mentally repeating a mantra or the name or names of a deity.
As a noun woylie
is (australia) a species of bettong, bettongia penicillata .As an adjective mala is
.woylie
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(wikipedia woylie)Noun
(en noun)page 89,
- Woylies are sometimes referred to as brush-tailed rat kangaroos. This alternative name is an apt description of these small marsupials.
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- It's a whodunit involving the woylie , the marsupial poster-child for recovery programs involving endangered animals.
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- ‘Like a woylie ,’ said John Dell, ‘Closely related.’
- Ah. Of course. Even I'd heard of the woylie . But like most of my countrymen, I couldn't have described one for love nor money.
- The woylie' belongs to the great treasury of marsupials that we revere and know nothing about. As I learnt that day, the boodie and the ' woylie are different species of bettong.