: any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos (especially genus Macropus) compare rock wallaby
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Recent Examples on the WebThe famous panda family returned to China in 2023, but the zoo still has a wide range of animals to admire, from wallabies to gorillas to naked mole-rats.—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2024 Periodical cicadas are unique to the United States, in the way that wallabies exist only in and near Australia.—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 May 2024 The photo carousel also includes pictures of the dancers posing with wombats and wallabies.—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024 My sister would eventually be vindicated when the existence of wild wallabies in the UK was confirmed and even captured on film.—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024 Ethnographic reports say Aboriginal Australians have used clubs, throwing sticks, and boomerangs against animals such as kangaroos and wallabies.—Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023 Eric Mogensen’s daughter, Meghan, the former director of that zoo, was found guilty of drowning a wallaby in 2012.—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023 Wildlife was plentiful — giant saltwater crocodiles, wallabies, dingoes, wild boar, and some 280 bird species live here.—Drew Kluska, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023 The hope is that this will be enough to keep rabbits, pigs and wallabies out, all of which chew on the reserve’s plant life and slow vegetation recovery.—Rina Diane Caballar, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
Dharuk (Australian aboriginal language of the Port Jackson area) walabi, waliba
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