bush rat

Noun

 * 1)  Any of various rat-sized rodents and marsupials, especially local species of.
 * 2) * 2004,, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 18:
 * The noise ceased the moment I crawled into the attic, but something was rotten in the roof, and a putrid smell and pyramids of chewed cardboard suggested that possums or bush rats had nested in boxes stacked with the previous owner's red and yellow moodscapes.
 * 1) The rodent,, of coastal eastern and southern Australia.