Wallaroo

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large kangaroo (Macropus robustus) having reddish or gray fur and living in the hilly regions of Australia.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of three closely related species of moderately large macropods, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies.
  • n. The common wallaroo, Macropus robustus; the most common and widely spread species of the three.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially Macropus robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A native name of some of the great kangaroos, as Macropus robustus.
    • Word Usage
    "It has not yet been determined by baraminologists whether kangaroos form a holobaramin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic."
    Cross Reference
    potoroo    joey    marsupial    wallaby   
    Hyponym
    great wallaroo   
     
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