Word.ws English Dictionary

Bennett's wallaby

Bennett's wallaby noun: a subspecies of red-necked wallaby, Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus, native to Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.

Noun

Bennett's wallaby (plural Bennett's wallabies)

  1. A subspecies of red-necked wallaby, Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus, native to Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.
    • All winter he has been looking for the track, living in caves […] ; for food he has had nothing but Bennett's wallaby, the odd pademelon.1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 22

Forms of Bennett's wallaby

pluralBennett's wallabies

Origin of Bennett's wallaby

From the name of Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836), English zoologist.

Questions about Bennett's wallaby

What does Bennett's wallaby mean?
Bennett's wallaby means a subspecies of red-necked wallaby, Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus, native to Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.
What part of speech is Bennett's wallaby?
Bennett's wallaby is a noun.
What is the plural of Bennett's wallaby?
The plural of Bennett's wallaby is Bennett's wallabies.

Words near Bennett's wallaby in the dictionary

  1. Bennett pinches
  2. Bennett Springs
  3. Bennett's fracture
  4. Bennett's law
  5. Bennett's wallabies
  6. Bennett's wallaby
  7. Bennette
  8. Bennettes
  9. bennettitalean
  10. bennettitaleans
  11. bennettite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Bennett's wallaby (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Bennett's wallaby.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bennett%27s_wallaby. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.