Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wombat

Wombat , noun

[From the native name, womback, wombach, in Australia.]

(Zoology) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (Phascolomys ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.