noun
pademelon; paddymelon
A small marsupial of the genus Thylogale, native to Australia and New Guinea. The Japanese name literally means 'thicket wallaby'.
オーストラリアの森で藪ワラビーを見かけた。
I spotted a pademelon in the Australian forest.
Standard kanji-katakana spelling for pademelon.
Variant kanji form; 薮 is an alternative character for 藪.
ワラビー is the broader term for wallaby, while 藪ワラビー refers specifically to the pademelon, a smaller, thicket-dwelling type.
Compound of 藪 (yabu, 'thicket') and ワラビー (warabī, 'wallaby'), a calque of the English 'pademelon' which itself derives from the Dharug word badimaliyan.