wallaby

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  1. noun Any of various marsupials of the genus Wallabia and related genera, of Australia and adjacent islands, related to the kangaroos but generally smaller and often having a colorful coat.

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  • Today: a vanishing wallaby, a stuck horse, and a tiny car. —  Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
  • The competition received more than 2050 votes from people selecting from four threatened species - the brush-tailed rock wallaby, the eastern barred bandicoot, the Baw Baw frog and the purple diuris orchard. —  Wimmera Mail Times
  • Shanter make um go No, no, don't hunt them No," cried the black, volubly; "hunt wallaby--hunt ole man kangaroo He grinned, and holding his hands before him, began to leap along the track in a wonderfully clever imitation of that singular animal last named, with the result that the horses snorted, and the bullocks set up their tails, and increased their pace Be quiet!" —  The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range
  • The kangaroo, wallaby, and opossum, form his chief food supply, but no animal or nourishing plant is neglected. —  Around the World in Ten Days
  • The wallaby is a smaller kind of kangaroo which is also hunted There are snipe to be shot in Australia; but wild duck is really the best kind of shooting we get, and far more easily obtainable. —  Town Life in Australia
 

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  1. Dharuk walaba.

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  1. Also wallabee, whallabee; from an Australian name.
 

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/ˈwɑləbi/
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