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   Kangaroo
   Kangaroo is the name of any marsupial of the family Macropodidae found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. Kangaroos are plant-eaters and most live in groups. They are adapted to hopping, the vast majority of species having very large back legs and feet compared with the small forelimbs. The larger types can jump 9 m in a single bound. Most are nocturnal. Species vary from small rat kangaroos, only 30 cm long, through the medium-sized wallabies, to the large red and great grey kangaroos, whi...
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   kangaroo
   [n] - any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail
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   kangaroo
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   Kangaroo
   Kan'ga·roo' noun [ Said to be the native name.] (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidæ . They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo ( Macropus major ) is the largest species, sometimes becoming ...
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   kangaroo
   <zoology> Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, new Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or ...
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   kangaroo
   noun any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail
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   Kangaroo
   A `kangaroo` is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning 'large foot'). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the Red Kangaroo, the Antilopine Kangaroo, and the Eastern and Western Grey Kangaroo of the `Macropus` genus. The family also includes many smaller species which include the wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons and the Quokka, some 63 living species in all. Kangaro...
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   Kangaroo
   • (n.) Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fou...
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   Kangaroo
   (from the article `Lawrence, D.H.`) Lawrence wrote Kangaroo in six weeks while visiting Australia in 1922. This novel is a serious summary of his own position at the time. The main ... During the 1920s Lawrence (who had left England in 1919) and Eliot began to develop viewpoints at odds with the reputations they had established ... [...
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    kangaroo
    any of six large species of Australian marsupials noted for hopping and bouncing on their hind legs. The term kangaroo, most specifically used, ... [6 related articles]
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    kangaroo
    kangaroo, name for a variety of hopping marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The term is applied especially to the large kangaroos of the genus Macropus. Kangaroos have powerful hind legs designed for leaping, long feet, short fore...
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