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WALLABY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored

Synonyms:

brush kangaroo; wallaby

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wallaby" is a kind of...):

kangaroo (any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wallaby"):

common wallaby; Macropus agiles (a small wallaby having a height of 30 inches)

hare wallaby; kangaroo hare (small Australian wallaby that resembles a hare and has persistent teeth)

nail-tailed kangaroo; nail-tailed wallaby (small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail)

rock kangaroo; rock wallaby (slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas)

paddymelon; pademelon (small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea)

tree kangaroo; tree wallaby (arboreal wallabies of New Guinea and northern Australia having hind and forelegs of similar length)

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