[koh-ah-luh] 
| a sluggish, tailless, gray, furry, arboreal marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, of Australia. |
| ko·a·la (kō-ä'lə) n. An arboreal Australian marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus) that has dense grayish fur, large ears, and sharp claws and feeds chiefly on the leaves of eucalyptus trees. [Probably from misreading of earlier coola, koolah, from Dharuk gula, gulawany.] |
