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Kangaroos

A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.

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📖 Definitions of "Kangaroos"

noun

1
A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
2
A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.

verb

1
To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
2
To hunt kangaroo.
3
To move like a kangaroo

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Kangaroos"

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Word	Definition
koalasnoun	A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.
wallabiesnoun	(rugby) The national rugby union representative team of Australia.
marsupialsnoun	Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
dingosnoun	A wild dog native to Australia (Canis familiaris, Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo).
wallabynoun	Any of several species of macropod; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos.
roosnoun	A surname.
kookaburrasnoun	Any of several species of kingfishers in the genus Dacelo.
koalanoun	A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.
wombatsnoun	Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
possumsnoun	(US) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas.
kookaburranoun	Any of several species of kingfishers in the genus Dacelo.
galahsnoun	(Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
crocodilesnoun	the debut album by the English post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen.
macropodsnoun	A marsupial of the family Macropodidae, which includes the kangaroos, wallabies, tree kangaroos and pademelons.
lyrebirdsnoun	Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus Menura, named because of the beautiful tail feathers of the male of one species, the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), which can be erected to look like a lyre, and notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.
goannasnoun	Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia.
dingoesnoun	A wild dog native to Australia (Canis familiaris, Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo).
bandicootsnoun	Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.
joeysnoun	The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.
platypusnoun	A semiaquatic monotreme from eastern Australia with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).