Kangaroo is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for KANGAROO in dictionary:

VERB:
• to bound like a kangaroo
• (of a car) move forward with sudden jerks
NOUN:
• (Native Australian) a large marsupial
• a large plant-eating marsupial with a long powerful tail and strongly developed hindlimbs that enable it to travel by leaping, found only in Australia and New Guinea.
• Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the genus Halmaturus, inhabit wooded districts. See Wallaby.
• any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail
• Australian marsupial
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an Australian mammal
• Australian marsupial which moves by jumping with its powerful hind legs

Words related to KANGAROO

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Words that contain KANGAROO

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How to use KANGAROO in a sentence

• A few days before our arrival one of the kangaroo dogs had been seized by an alligator, and instantly drowned.
• From that day forward, the voyage on the Kangaroo was, until the last dread catastrophe, a very happy one for Augusta.
• Kangaroo, who produced the roll of the ship, on which the names of the two sailors, Johnnie Butt and Bill Jones, duly appeared.
• Not a kangaroo rat could hop across from one scrub to another if there was the least suspicion upon him without being blocked or run into.
• Sometimes, when excited, the old male of the great kangaroo stands on tiptoe and on his tail, and is then of prodigious height.
• Nothing was more interesting than to watch one of these children of the bush stalking a kangaroo.
• I therefore made him a set of moccasins out of kangaroo skin, and tied them on his feet.
• It is used by the natives with success in killing the kangaroo, and is, I believe, more a hunting than a warlike weapon.
• I can now run as fast as one of my Newmarket stud, pull down a buffalo, and catch a kangaroo by the tail in fair field.
• Like Buache, it is covered with an abundant and vigorous vegetation, and a small species of kangaroo is said by Freycinet to be numerous upon it.
• The butter and the rest of the provisions were very welcome, the salmon still more so, but the sight of the kangaroo produced screams of admiration.
• He had killed a kangaroo the evening before, and skinned it.
• I shot a female kangaroo of the Petrogale brachyotis near Hanover Bay, and by the preservation of the skin and other parts enabled Mr.
• We soon saw a party of natives of this description seated around a fire, black with dirt, and gorged with the flesh of a kangaroo.
• The chase of the kangaroo conducted by a number of natives is a much more lively and noisy affair, but it is not to my taste nearly so interesting.
• But kangaroo beef and potatoes seemed a most luxurious diet to the men and women who had been kept alive for three weeks on nothing but shellfish.
• Scott and his hounds hunted the kangaroo, and supplied the colony with meat.
• The liver of the kangaroo when boiled and left to grow cold is a dry substance, which, with the help of hunger and a little imagination, is said to be as good as bread.
• A kangaroo was seen feeding about a hundred yards distant, and Gleeson dismounted and shot at it, but it hopped away unharmed.
• A large light-coloured kangaroo was the only living thing we saw.
• The harbour we named Recruit Harbour, from its affording fresh supplies of the small kangaroo, in addition to the fish found everywhere else.
• Behind the eastern entrance point, was seen a large light-coloured kangaroo, which, for want of a better, afforded us a name.
• It had been my intention, on our passage to the westward, to have examined the south and west sides of Kangaroo Island, with the rocks lying off the former.
• The other parts of the island are low, and thickly covered with brush wood and some trees, where a small species of kangaroo seemed to be numerous, though none were caught.
• These birds sit watching in the trees, and should a kangaroo come out to feed in the day-time, it is seized and torn to pieces by these voracious creatures.
• Their size was superior to any of those found upon the more western islands, but much inferior to the forest kangaroo of the continent.
• It appeared indeed, all along the South Coast, that the size of the kangaroo bore some proportion to the extent of land which it inhabited.
• The kangaroo which leapt about on the discharge of the piece, was another which had not been previously in sight, and appeared to have been the mate of that which fell.
• PREVENTED BY A NATIVE WITH SPEARS FROM SHOOTING A KANGAROO.
• A kangaroo dog was also missing, and supposed to be with him.
• On one of these open tracts I wounded a female kangaroo at a far shot of my rifle, and the wretched animal was finally killed after a desperate fight with the dogs.
• The accounts received by the Kangaroo, which commence from the beginning of November, state that on the 7th of that month, the house and premises of Mr.
• During the night the ground was covered with a thick frost, and a leg of the kangaroo was quite frozen.

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