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kangaroo

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Word definitions for kangaroo in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1770, used by Capt. Cook and botanist Joseph Banks, supposedly an aborigine word from northeast Queensland, Australia, usually said to be unknown now in any native language. However, according to Australian linguist R.M.W. Dixon ("The Languages of Australia," ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
kangaroo \kan"ga*roo"\, n. [Said to be the native name.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodid[ae] . They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large ...

Usage examples of kangaroo.

Dot hastily returned to the Kangaroo, and all the Native Companions came daintily, and made graceful adieus to them both.

Several pigs, agoutis, kangaroos, and other rodents were seen, also two or three koalas, at which Pencroft longed to have a shot.

I might answer by the argumentum ad hominem, and ask what should be done if a perfect kangaroo were seen to come out of the womb of a bear?

Fast two-legged creatures must necessarily perform in similar ways, however ridiculous a man may appear when behaving as a kangaroo.

Implacental Mammals peculiar to America and Australia, such as Opossums, Dasyures, Wombats, and Kangaroos.

She took her time enjoying her walk, the lush beauty of the foliage surrounding her home, the fragrant blue haze of the eucalypts evaporating in the heat, the brilliance of the scarlet Kangaroo Paw.

Their speed and method of locomotion were both remarkable, springing as they did in great leaps of twenty or thirty feet, much after the manner of a kangaroo.

After a supper of kangaroo tail, goanna and the last crust of bread, washed down with rain water, they loaded more wood on the fire and slept warm and snug in the rough bush shelter around the fire.

Not Emu, or Goanna Lizard, or Kangaroo, not a Rainbow Serpent nor a Sky-God nor any of the Ancestors who were here in the Dreamtime.

Last time I was there she used to let out six Egyptian jerboas in the drawing-room every evening after dinner, awfully jolly little beggars, like miniature kangaroos.

Not only were there more koala bears than they could have imagined, there were dingos, kookaburras, kangaroos, and evena platypus.

The kangaroo and oppossum are provided with a pouch attached to the abdomen, which receives the young born at an early stage of development.

There are a variety of other animals of different sizes, from the oppossum down to our implacable enemy, the field rat, all of which in some shape or other, partake of the kangaroo and opossum.

Should a picaninny endeavour to crawl away from its rug or its sheet of bark its mother always threatened it with the calling of the giant kangaroo.

She rode well too, having been taught in England, and she, Poss, Binjie and Hugh had some great scampers after kangaroos, half-wild horses, or anything else that would get up and run in front of them.