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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored [syn: wallaby, brush kangaroo]
Merriam Webster's
noun (plural wallabies; also wallaby) Etymology: Dharuk (Australian aboriginal language of the Port Jackson area) walabi, waliba Date: circa 1798 any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos (especially genus Macropus) — compare rock wallaby
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. (pl. -ies) 1 any of various marsupials of the family Macropodidae, smaller than kangaroos, and having large hind feet and long tails. 2 (Wallabies) colloq. the Australian international Rugby Union team. Phrases and idioms: on the wallaby (or wallaby track) Austral. vagrant; unemployed. Etymology: Aboriginal wolaba
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Wallaby 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 (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains. [Written also wallabee, and whallabee.]
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(wallabies) A wallaby is an animal similar to a small kangaroo. Wallabies live in Australia and New Guinea. N-COUNT
