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• It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.From the entry peculiar
• Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.From the entry jump
• The cell phone in my best friend's kangaroo pocket created the illusion that he was happy to see Jasmine.From the entry happy to see someone
• Kangaroos are well suited for kangatarians, who are seriously concerned about the environment and ethics.2017 July 7, Bernie Ascher, “Going Bananas over Chess”, in Everything is Chess, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, published 2018, →ISBN…. From the entry kangatarian
• If the only meat you eat is kangaroo, you are a kangatarian.2012, Joe Schwarcz, “Weird and Wonderful”, in The Right Chemistry: 108 Enlightening, Nutritious, Health-conscious and Occasionally Bizarre…. From the entry kangatarian
• Kangaroos and their relatives that live in the rainforest include pademelons, wallabies, and tree kangaroos.2008, Barbara A. Holzman, Tropical Forest Biomes, page 122. From the entry pademelon
• Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights.2007, Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings, page 250. From the entry biro
• Kangaroos on the other hand become even more sooky (needy for attention), when denied time outside.2006, Lynda Staker, The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods, page 189. From the entry sooky
• But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial, where the kangaroo lives.2002, Fiction Fix: First Injection, page 58. From the entry marsupial
• Among the kangaroo words that yield the most joviality and joy are those that conceal multiple joeys.1998, Richard Lederer, Dave Morice, The Word Circus, page 129. From the entry joey
• He was as concerned as a rabbit when it is cornered by a kangaroo dog.1986, Bruce Pascoe, “The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal…. From the entry kangaroo dog
• The kangaroo bar is attached to the car at five points.1969, The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage, volume 130, page 38. From the entry kangaroo bar
• In some respects a jumping mouse resembles kangaroo rats and kangaroo mice in habits and appearance.1954, Lloyd Glenn Ingles, Mammals of California and Its Coastal Waters, page 256. From the entry jumping mouse
• Laurie laughed while I burned three kangaroo ticks from my legs.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 82. From the entry camp
• They take him off to face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery.1933 April 10, “The New Pictures: M by Fritz Lang”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr…. From the entry kangaroo court
• Australia’s states and territories oversee management of kangaroos and wallabies but the federal government is involved in exports.2015 September 14, Oliver Milman, “California set to ban kangaroo imports despite lobbying efforts by Australia”, in The Guardian…. From the entry wallaby
• Pademelons are a distinct group of small wallabies, considerably smaller than both the giant kangaroos and the other, larger wallabies.2013, Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Wildlife of Australia, page 32. From the entry pademelon
• They are usually smaller than kangaroos and wallaroos.2007, Rebecca Stefoff, The Marsupial Order, page 65. From the entry parma wallaby
• Sometimes a kangaroo word has more than one joey.2005, Anu Garg, Another Word a Day, page 132. From the entry joey
• The leader of a mob of kangaroos is the strongest and usually the largest male in the group.2004, Louise Spilsbury, Richard Spilsbury, A Mob of Kangaroos, Heinemann Library, page 9. From the entry mob
• Anyway, kangaroos evolved here, as did platypodes and a whole bunch of other birds and animals and fish and plants.2001, Peter Mackay, “Native Animal Recipes?”, in canb.general (Usenet). From the entry platypodes
• Like a kangaroo novice, each joey word must take at least one hop through the letters of the mother word.1998, Richard Lederer, Dave Morice, The word circus. From the entry joey word
• Woylies are sometimes referred to as brush-tailed rat kangaroos.1996, Rees Barrett, Peter Dent, Place, Patter and Process, page 89. From the entry woylie
• Spring flowers everywhere—freesias in throng, and startling growths of kangaroo paw with its dark red, vividly red stalks.1984, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978-1987, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 118. From the entry kangaroo paw
• There were giant possums, huge marsupial lions, and kangaroos.1981, Margaret Rau, Red Earth, Blue Sky: The Australian Outback, New York, N.Y: Crowell, page 5. From the entry wombatlike
• On top it's a dry cactused area inhabited by typical upper desert creatures such as kangaroo rats and collared lizards.1977, Jack Couffer, Mike Couffer, Canyon Summer, Putnam, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry cactused
• Since Miss McKendry is a dinky-die Aussie with an accent thick as a kangaroo′s tail, she was hexed from the start.1962, Show: The Magazine of the Arts, volume 2, page 74. From the entry dinky-di
• It is the right of the accused to be tried by a legally constituted court, not by a kangaroo court.1951 April 23, William O[rville] Douglas, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, “Williams v. United States”, in Legal…. From the entry kangaroo court
• The kangaroo is fetiferous, but has no placenta.1930, J. Fullerton Gressitt, transl., Love—The Law Of Life, translation of 愛の科学 by Toyohiko Kagawa, page 31. From the entry fetiferous
• In Australia and Samoa the kangaroo, the crow and the owl premonish their fellow clansmen of events to come.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 56. From the entry premonish
• A kangaroo man cannot make rain, nor can a rain man do anything to increase the number of kangaroos.1913, Walter Hutchinson, Customs of the World, →ISBN. From the entry rain man
• The kangaroo grass in the Colac region of Western Victoria was so high it concealed the flocks of the first settler, G.T.2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 23. From the entry kangaroo grass
• Now believe it or not, kangaroos are actually quite fast and can easily outrun (or perhaps outhop is more appropriate) a human.2015 September 11, Yoni Heisler, “Kangaroo chase sends two golfers running for their lives”, in BGR. From the entry outhop
• Flannery had discovered a tooth that belonged to what may prove to be the missing link between ancient possumlike creatures and the modern kangaroos.2007 July 25, William Grimes, “A Zoologist With a Pouch of Stories”, in New York Times. From the entry possumlike
• The female red kangaroo is referred to as a Blue Flyer, whilst the male is generally known as a Marloo or Boomer.2006, Lynda Staker, The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods. From the entry blue flyer
• Sthenurine kangaroos, while pedally distinctive, also have the sustentacular portion of the CLAJP located more laterally, as in Prionotemnus, compared to other macropodoids.2006, Frederick S. Szalay, Evolutionary History of the Marsupials and an Analysis of Osteological Characters, →ISBN, page 260. From the entry pedally
• His research, which has focused on the few partial kangaroo skeletons found, has provided insights into why the bulungamayine kangaroos were so successful while the balbarids vanished.2004, Tim Flannery, Country: A Continent, a Scientist & Kangaroo, Text Publishing, page 118. From the entry balbarid

Meaning of kangaroo

1. noun A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia and New Guinea.
2. noun A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.
3. verb To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.

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How do you use kangaroo in a sentence?

Kangaroo is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.”

What is a short sentence with kangaroo?

“The kangaroo is fetiferous, but has no placenta.”

What does kangaroo mean?

Kangaroo means a member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia and New Guinea.