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A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
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A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.
verb
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To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
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To hunt kangaroo.
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To move like a kangaroo
adjective
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Of or relating to Australia.
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(investments) Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.
Examples of kangaroo in a Sentence
The kangaroo (Macro pus) lives in droves in the open grassy plains.
They had clothing of skins rudely stitched together with bark thread, and they were decorated with simple necklaces of kangaroo teeth, shells and berries.
Kangaroo leather is another choice for some high-performance cleats.
In the case of the great grey kangaroo, for instance, the period of gestation is less than forty days, and the newly-born embryo, which is blind, naked, and unable to use its bud-like limbs, is little more than an inch in length.
The same deposits have also yielded remains of extinct types of kangaroo, some of gigantic size, constituting the genera Sthenurus, Procoptodon and Palorchestes.
The Desert Rat Kangaroo is missing, presumed extinct.
Pajama City also has a huge range and offers some extra fun in the styling with kangaroo pockets, so hands stay nice and warm too.
The rock wallabies again have short tarsi of the hind legs, with a long pliable tail for climbing, like that of the tree kangaroo of New Guinea, or that of the jerboa.
The reference is, of course, to the kangaroo, which Pelsaert had also remarked and quaintly described some sixty years previously.
The chief suburbs are Kangaroo Point, Fortitude Valley, New Farm, Red Hill, Paddington, Milton, Toowong, Breakfast Creek, Bulimba, Woolloongabba, Highgate Hill and Indooroopilly.
Its animal life is in the main distinguished in species only from that of the Upper Sonoran belt, including among birds, the desert sparrow, desert thrasher, mocking-bird, hooded oriole; and among mammals small nocturnal species of kangaroo rats, pocket mice, mice and bats.
Excellent ales are complimented by good well priced food with an Australian feel including kangaroo.
Webster's revised unabridged Dictionary asserts that the word is a combination of Jack + kangaroo.
This kangaroo leather shoe also has a comfortable foam insole and powerful outsoles to provide stability and performance.
Expect details like three-quarter sleeves, kangaroo pockets, and a solid body of jersey knit.
The kangaroo and most of its congeners show an extraordinary disproportion of the hind limbs to the fore part of the body.
One species can utter a cry when pained or alarmed, and the tall-standing frilled lizard can lift its forelegs, and squat or hop like a kangaroo.
The waratah or native tulip, the magnificent flowering head of which, with the kangaroo, is symbolic of the country, is one of the Proteaceae.
Some of its characteristic mammals and birds are the long-eared desert fox, four-toed kangaroo rats, Sonoran pocket mice, big-eared and tiny white-haired bats, road runner, cactus wren, canyon wren, desert thrashers, hooded oriole, black-throated desert sparrow, Texas night-hawk and Gambels quail.
During the early period of their sojourn in the pouch, the blind, naked, helpless young creatures (which in the great kangaroo scarcely exceed an inch in length) are attached by their mouths to the nipple of the mother, and are fed by milk injected into their stomach by the contraction of the muscle covering the mammary gland.
Apart from the duck and her two ducklings there is also a kangaroo and then a blue footed booby.
Kangaroo babies were less likely to get hypothermia than those in conventional care.
Pajama City also has a number of great footy pajamas, and you can even get kangaroo pockets for extra warmth and fun.
Their nets, made by women, either of the tendons of animals or the fibres of plants, will catch and hold the kangaroo or the emu, or the very large fish of Australian rivers.
In the herbivorous modification, as seen in three distinct phases in the horse, the kangaroo, and in ruminants, the incisors are generally well developed in one or both jaws, and have a nipping action, either against one another or against a toothless hard pad in the upper jaw; while the canines are usually small or absent, at least in the upper jaw, but in the lower jaw may be approximated and assimilated to the incisors.
You kangaroo hop across Vauxhall Bridge in shrieking first gear, smooth as taking a suburban cul-de-sac full of sleeping policemen at 70 mph.
It was here than I finally saw a living kangaroo.
We had a small gray kangaroo snacking in our top house paddock most of the afternoon.
They qualify for the 1999 European kangaroo on Friday 19th March.
A bit like the tree kangaroo, Pleo seems like a pet.
I have never seen a rhinoceros or kangaroo on the A9.
Even Blue Kangaroo gets a pink ribbon to wear.
The name for a baby wallaby, kangaroo or possum is a Joey.
What do you get if you cross a zebra with a kangaroo?
Among its characteristic mammals and birds are the sage cotton-tail, black-tailed jack-rabbit, Idaho rabbit, Oregon, Utah and Townsends ground squirrels, sage chipmunk, fivetoed kangaroo rats, pocket mice, grasshopper mice, burrowing owl, Brewers sparrow, Nevada sage sparrow, lazuli finch, sage thrasher, Nuttall s poor-will, Bullocks oriole and rough-winged swallow.
I think it 's been life enhancing and I shall definitely remember eating a squelching kangaroo testicle.
Australia Holidays Simpsons Gap At Simpsons Gap there is opportunity to see rock wallabies which are the smaller cousin of the kangaroo.
Meanwhile, gas stations like Murphy USA and Kangaroo sometimes offer specials, such as $1.00 off a purchase of two packs.
Some motorcyclists prefer kangaroo leather.
See Kangaroo.
Characteristic forms of the Upper Sonoran zone are the burrowing owl, Nevada sage-thrush, sagethrasher and special species of orioles, kangaroo rats, mice, rabbits and squirrels.
A Widow n Like Alice What does a kangaroo eat for breakfast?
Read the story I love you blue kangaroo by Emma Chichester Clark.
I managed to hop inside the pouch of a kangaroo and snuggled down with Joey, a baby kangaroo.
It is the largest marsupial in the world. · The Kangaroo moves by hopping on its powerful hind legs.
The whole kangaroo subplot, Jack performing on-screen, mostly eating out of the red jacket, just doesn't cut it.
Then come the rat-kangaroos, or kangaroo-rats, constituting the sub-family Potoroinae; while the tree-kangaroos (Dendrolagus), rock-wallabie's (Petrogale), and wallabies and kangaroos (Macropus) form the Macropodinae (see Kangaroo).
Webster 's Revised Unabridged Dictionary asserts that the word is a combination of Jack + kangaroo.
Johnny Jump Up-Your little one will think he is a kangaroo once he gets going in one of these!
However, you also can choose from an ape, panda, elephant, crocodile or kangaroo, as well as some other pets.