- bandicoot - any of various agile rat-like terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous
--1 is a kind of marsupial, pouched mammal
--1 is a member of Peramelidae, family Peramelidae
--1 has particulars:rabbit-eared bandicoot, rabbit bandicoot, bilby, Macrotis lagotis