kangaroo
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1.2
- noun
- /ˌkæŋɡəˈru/
- Australian
:
canguro
- While visiting Australia, I was thrilled to see a wild kangaroo hopping across the open field.
- see kangaroos
- kangaroos and koalas
- a giant kangaroo
I wouldn't want to go to Australia and take a little baby kangaroo, right?
- I wouldn't want to go to Australia and take a little baby kangaroo, right?
- You could pay extra to feed the koalas and you and the Kangaroos, which we did.
- But but I thought, OK, I'll go because I, I really want to see a kangaroo and you have to take a boat there, right?
- So I understood that there was that, that that chicken has a diet, that cow has a diet, that horse has a diet, that kangaroo has a diet.
- Mad at it, scary animals, hippos, Kangaroos, chimps.
- And in South Africa there are Kangaroos, there are Emus, there are Layla's.
Examples
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Contrary to popular lore, you will not see kangaroos hopping down the main street of Sydney.
Academic text (2002) -
There are a bunch of Kangaroos everywhere.
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I wouldn't want to go to Australia and take a little baby kangaroo, right?
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The part with the kangaroos was a little weird, though.
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You could pay extra to feed the koalas and you and the Kangaroos, which we did.
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One must venture outside the suburban sprawl to see kangaroos in the wild.
Academic text (2002) -
Most the island is a nature reserve so we're going to see wallabies and koalas and kangaroos.
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Ellen's father brought her a glass paperweight shaped like a kangaroo and a T-shirt that said SYDNEY.
Fiction book (1991) -
The nature reserve has a special area where you can feed and interact with kangaroos.
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In the bushland, many kangaroos can be spotted at dusk when they come out to graze.
Synonyms
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9.9
A large Australian animal that hops and carries its babies in a pouch
4
9.3
A large Australian animal that jumps using strong back legs and a long tail
Compounds
- Informal
6
8.8
An unfair trial that pretends to be legal and decides guilt beforehand
- US
1
6.3
A small desert animal like a mouse that hops on long hind legs and has a long tail
- Australian
1
6.9
An animal like a kangaroo that lives in trees in New Guinea and northern Australia
- Australian
A small or medium animal like a kangaroo that lives in forests and thick bushes
- Australian
A small kangaroo from northeast Australia that has a strong natural smell
- Australian
A very large Australian animal that hops, has grey-brown fur, and is now rare in open woods
- Australian
A small Australian animal that carries its babies in a pouch with long back legs and a brush-like tail
- Australian
A small Australian plant with purple flowers and yellow, egg-shaped fruit
- Slur
A rude joke name for someone from Australia used to insult or mock themselves
- Australian
A small Australian hopping animal that looks like a hare and keeps its teeth for life
- Australian
A small Australian animal with a pouch and a long tail that hops at night
- Australian
An Australian plant with long leaves and bright fuzzy flowers shaped like tubes
- Australian
A small Australian animal with a pouch that looks like a rat but is related to kangaroos
- Australian
An Australian plant with fuzzy spring flowers shaped like a kangaroo's foot
- Australian
A small kangaroo-like animal with a hard nail at the tip of its tail
- Australian
A small Australian animal with a pouch that looks like a rabbit-sized rat
- Australian
A small animal like a kangaroo with long legs that lives among rocks in Australia
- Specialized
A small mouse-like animal with large back legs that hops and lives in burrows in the western United States
How Big
- Australian
79
1.2
- Australian
7
5.9
220
1.0
- Australian
587
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kangaroo comes from an Australian Aboriginal word gangurru, which was the local name for the large leaping animal in north Queensland. So English simply borrowed the animal's own name, and that is why kangaroo refers to the Australian marsupial today.