单词 | pretty-face wallaby |
释义 | > as lemmaspretty-face wallaby 2. More fully pretty-face kangaroo, pretty-face wallaby. The whiptail wallaby, Macropus parryi, of eastern Australia, which is pale and slender with white and blackish stripes on the face and ears. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > wallaby > wallabies of genus Macropus Parmac1842 toolache1879 pretty-face wallaby1887 scrub wallaby1896 1887 W. S. S. Tyrwhitt New Chum in Queensland Bush viii. 145 The smaller kind [of kangaroo], known as pretty faces or whip tails,..are rather smaller and of a grey colour. 1911 W. H. D. Le Souëf Wild Life Austral. vii. 215 The most graceful of the Kangaroos..are locally called Pretty-face or Whip-tailed Kangaroos. 1956 T. Y. Harris Naturecraft in Austral. 77 The Pretty-face Wallaby..grazes quietly in open country, usually in the cooler parts of the day. 2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 21 Sept. d4 Pretty-face wallabies are on view for the first time in an open walk through an enclosure at the zoo. < as lemmas |
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