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Kangaroo

Definition of kangaroo:

part of speech: noun

An Australian quadruped, remarkable for the length of its hindlegs and its power of leaping.

part of speech: noun

An animal peculiar to Australia, having short fore legs, and long, powerful hind legs with which it leaps.

Usage examples for kangaroo:

It jumps like a grasshopper, bounds like a kangaroo "The Madman and the Pirate", R.M. Ballantyne.
The kangaroo did so, and is now become the most difficult animal in the world to catch. "The Bushman Life in a New Country", Edward Wilson Landor.
I never seen such a kangaroo "Kitty's Conquest", Charles King.
The question is, concluded the Kangaroo who shall I ask to find it? "Dot and the Kangaroo", Ethel C. Pedley.

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