| 单词 | wallaroo kangaroo |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswallaroo kangaroo A large species of kangaroo, Macropus robustus; in Queensland and New South Wales applied chiefly to the black variety. Also wallaroo kangaroo. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > macropus robustus (wallaroo) wallaroo1826 1826 J. Atkinson Acct. Agric. & Grazing New S. Wales ii. 24 There is also found far in the interior another variety [of kangaroo], called wallaroos; they are much larger than any of the others. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. xvii. 309 The wallaroo, of a blackish colour, with coarse shaggy fur, inhabiting the hills. 1845 J. O. Balfour Sketch New S. Wales 25 The wallaroo kangaroo is of a darkish red colour, and weighs about 60 lbs. 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. xiii. 458 He had been guided by a beaten track of Wallurus. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. v. 111 The..southern forest, where..the forester kangaroo and the wallaroo alone run. < as lemmas |
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