A variant or possibly archaic term, potentially referring to a type of bandicoot or related animal in regional usage.
Possibly a regional variant or alternate spelling influenced by local languages and colonial-era English transcriptions of South Asian animal names.
This word is so obscure that it's like discovering a fossil in the dictionary—it shows how colonial encounters with exotic animals created dozens of competing names!
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