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Meanings of wallaby in English

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Fur of the wallaby or kangaroo.

Related terms
Portuguese
wallabee
Catalan
ualabi
Spanish
walabí

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

wallabee
Synonyms
Examples for "brush kangaroo"
Examples for "brush kangaroo"
1
The brush kangaroo is easily killed by the dogs; a grip in the throat or loins usually suffices.
Forest and Frontiers; Or, Adventures Among the Indians
2
Father used to set snares for the brush kangaroo and the bandicoots, like he'd been used to do for the hares in the old country.
Robbery under Arms / A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush a...
Usage of wallaby in English
1
And a quirky nature fact about the dentition of a small wallaby.
Radio NZ
2
The wallaby is a smaller kind of kangaroo which is also hunted.
Town Life in Australia
3
Find it but man doesn't know that a wallaby is a kangaroo.
The new yorker
4
We have seen no other game, except one wallaby and one kangaroo.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
5
Saw traces of kangaroo, emu, and wallaby on our way here yesterday.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
6
They rode and rode, but Warrigal was gone like a rock wallaby.
Robbery under Arms / A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush a...
7
A wallaby, he's got a face like a rabbit, or a rat.
A Town like Alice
8
Circulating IGFBPs were analyzed in plasma from wallaby mothers and their pouch young.
Pubmed
9
Among them is Australia's second smallest rock-wallaby -the nabarlek or pygmy rock-wallaby
Radio NZ
10
There were no changes in circulating IGFBPs in the wallaby mothers throughout lactation.
Pubmed
11
Traffic controllers from the Transport Management Centre, including Dave Wright, monitored the wallaby.
Radio NZ
12
The reminder came after recent wallaby sightings near Whakatane and Tauranga.
Radio NZ
13
She finds the wallaby, and it decides her about going back to England.
The new yorker
14
For the rest there were sky, wallaby-scrub, gum-trees, and some acres of cultivation.
On Our Selection
15
Gibson shot a wallaby, and we had fried chops for our Christmas dinner.
Australia Twice Traversed / The Romance of Exploration, Being a ...
16
An escaped wallaby has been spotted bouncing around a snow covered Leicestershire village.
BBC
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Translations for wallaby
Portuguese
wallabeewallaby
Catalan
ualabi
Spanish
walabí
Wallaby through the time
Wallaby across language varieties
United Kingdom
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