noun
- a sluggish, tailless, gray, furry, arboreal marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, of Australia.
noun
- a slow-moving Australian arboreal marsupial, Phascolarctus cinereus, having dense greyish fur and feeding on eucalyptus leaves and barkAlso called (Austral): native bear
Australian marsupial, 1808, from the Aboriginal name of the animal, variously given as koola, kulla, kula.