Words similar to kangaroo

Example sentences for: kangaroo

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It was 1972 before the linguist John Haviland identified the word in the Queensland language Guugu Yimidhirr, where it denoted a particular species of kangaroo and evidenced the fineness of distinction that characterizes Aboriginal languages.
Complaints abound that Nuremberg was a kangaroo court . Sen.
Aboriginal etymologies are now mostly settled, the historical and geographical evidence of a word's early use being brought collectively to bear as in the case of kangaroo .
Kangaroo Saviors
The wallaby and the wallaroo were, like the kangaroo, large marsupials which the Aborigines hunted; the koala was also a marsupial but arboreal in habit and sufficiently unique in appearance to have had the settlers liken it to a bear, a sloth, or a monkey in their naming of it; the wombat was a heavy, thickset marsupial sometimes known as a badger because of its burrowing habit.