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wallaroo
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wallaroo: see kangaroo kangaroo, name for a variety of hopping marsupials , or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The term is applied especially to the large kangaroos of the genus Macropus.
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One of the four largest species of kangaroo. The wallaroo (Macropus robustus) is smaller and stockier than the other three species (also in the genus Macropus); its colour varies from dark gray to pinkish brown. It lives in rocky country throughout Australia except in Victoria.


wallaroo
a large stocky Australian kangaroo, Macropus (or Osphranter) robustus, of rocky regions


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