Other forms: koalas
A koala is a sleepy Australian animal that hugs trees and eats their leaves. A koala in a gum tree, a sleeping koala, koala habitat.
It sleeps up to twenty hours a day because eucalyptus leaves give so little energy and are toxic to almost everything else. It is a marsupial and not a bear, and it is one of the few animals besides primates to have fingerprints.
1nounkoalaA sleepy Australian animal that eats eucalyptus leaves.
“A koala was asleep in the fork of a gum tree, holding on with its claws.”
koala is an animal.
From an Aboriginal word of the Dharug language of the Sydney region.
xdk
gula
English, today
koala
From xdk gula or gulawany.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA