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kangooroo

kangooroo is the obsolete form of kangaroo.

Meaning of kangaroo

Noun

kangaroo (plural kangaroos)

  1. A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia and New Guinea.
    • Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru […].1770 August 4, James Cook, Journal
    Synonyms:
    macropod, roo
  2. (Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.

See all 7 meanings of kangaroo

Forms of kangooroo

pluralkangooroos

Questions about kangooroo

What is kangooroo the obsolete form of?
Kangooroo is the obsolete form of kangaroo.

Words near kangooroo in the dictionary

  1. Kanglu
  2. Kanglung
  3. Kanglus
  4. Kangnam
  5. kango
  6. kangooroo
  7. kangooroos
  8. kangos
  9. Kangpar
  10. Kangpokpi
  11. Kangra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kangooroo (page history and authors); kangaroo (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.

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