wallaby

  • 1wallaby — [ walabi ] n. m. • 1848; mot indigène australien, par l angl. ♦ Kangourou de petite taille, de diverses espèces. Des wallabys ou des wallabies. ♢ Comm. Fourrure du rat musqué ou ondatra. ● wallaby, wallabies ou wallabys nom masculin (mot… …

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  • 2wallaby — [wä′lə bē] n. pl. wallabies or wallaby [< Australian native name wolabā] any of various small and medium sized herbivorous marsupials (family Macropodidae) that are very similar to kangaroos …

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  • 3Wallaby — Wal la*by, n.; pl. {Wallabies}. [From a native name.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus {Halmaturus}, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo ({Halmaturus… …

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  • 4Wallaby — Wallaby, Bezeichnung der kleinern Arten der Känguruhgattg. Macropus (s. Känguruhs). Felle zur Imitation von Skunks verwendet …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 5wallaby — kind of small kangaroo, 1826, from native Australian wolaba …

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  • 6wallaby — ► NOUN (pl. wallabies) ▪ an Australasian marsupial similar to but smaller than a kangaroo. ORIGIN Dharuk (an Aboriginal language) …

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  • 7Wallaby — Taxobox name = Wallabies image caption = Red necked Wallaby regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia infraclassis = Marsupialia ordo = Diprotodontia subordo = Macropodiformes familia = Macropodidae familia authority = in partA… …

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  • 8Wallaby — Nom vernaculaire ou nom normalisé ambigu : Le terme « Wallaby » s applique en français à plusieurs taxons distincts. Wallaby …

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  • 9wallaby — /wol euh bee/, n., pl. wallabies, (esp. collectively) wallaby. any of various small and medium sized kangaroos of the genera Macropus, Thylogale, Petrogale, etc., some of which are no larger than rabbits: several species are endangered. [1790… …

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  • 10wallaby — /ˈwɒləbi / (say woluhbee) noun (plural wallabies or, especially collectively, wallaby) 1. any of various smaller members of the family Macropodidae, many resembling kangaroos, belonging to a number of different genera, as Macropus (as the tammar… …