kangaroo
Noun
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Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail (synset 101879775)
is a type of: marsupial, pouched mammal - mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carriedsubtypes:
- giant kangaroo, great grey kangaroo, macropus giganteus - very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas
- brush kangaroo, wallaby - any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored
- hypsiprymnodon moschatus, musk kangaroo - small kangaroo of northeastern Australia
- kangaroo rat, rat kangaroo - any of several rabbit-sized ratlike Australian kangaroos
belongs to: family macropodidae, macropodidae - kangaroos; wallabies
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