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KANGAROO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("kangaroo" is a kind of...):
marsupial; pouched mammal (mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kangaroo"):
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)
Holonyms ("kangaroo" is a member of...):
family Macropodidae; Macropodidae (kangaroos; wallabies)
