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kangaroo
noun
kan·ga·roo
ˌkaŋ-gə-ˈrü 
plural kangaroos
: any of various herbivorous leaping marsupial mammals (family Macropodidae) of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands with a small head, large ears, long powerful hind legs, a long thick tail used as a support and in balancing, and rather small forelegs not used in locomotion
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Surfing, fishing, roasting marshmallows and wrestling kangaroos.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 26 Dec. 2025
Mala is a joey (a baby kangaroo) and once joeys have left their mother’s pouch, only one in five will make it to their first birthday.
—Tomris Laffly, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
And all of the young kangaroos (the joeys) were in fact real creatures rather than CGI.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
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Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
Surfing, fishing, roasting marshmallows and wrestling kangaroos.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 26 Dec. 2025
Mala is a joey (a baby kangaroo) and once joeys have left their mother’s pouch, only one in five will make it to their first birthday.
—Tomris Laffly, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
And all of the young kangaroos (the joeys) were in fact real creatures rather than CGI.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for kangaroo
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“Kangaroo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kangaroo. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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kangaroo
noun
kan·ga·roo
ˌkaŋ-gə-ˈrü
plural kangaroos
: any of numerous leaping marsupial mammals of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands that feed on plants and have a small head, long powerful hind legs, a long thick tail used as a support in standing or walking, and in the female a pouch on the abdomen in which the young are carried
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