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- noun Plural form of
macropod .
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Examples
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By virty, November 7, 2009 @ 6:12 pm all your cups still in the cupboard macropods? no Q bar gold free entry till you drop dead key rings for you me dear.
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By virty, November 12, 2009 @ 3:06 pm hey macropods, you finally picked up a case of bird flu aye. v.
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By virty, December 1, 2009 @ 6:58 am ah macropods, macropods, a fish lẩu mắm or hotpot you can have the head is a far cry from frikken buddhist finger food dearie.
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Malevolent malodorous midget macropods do, anyways.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Sometimes I can’t believe my own munificence. 2009
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Humans are the only fully bipedal primate, and we're among the few fully bipedal mammals, most of the others belong to the family of macropods - the hopping family of the Kangaroo and Wallaby.
Jacob Dickerman: Journalists Present Acupuncture Placebo As Cure 2009
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These include four species of ringtail possum (Petauridae), Australia's only two tree-kangaroo species Dendrolagus lumholtzi and D. bennettianus, and the musky rat-kangaroo Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, which is the smallest and in many respects the most primitive of the macropods.
Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008
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Mom was a very well-known, pioneer of wildlife rehabilitation, she used to take on injured and orphaned -- particularly macropods, baby kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, koalas, and she'd nurture them until they were big enough to release into the wild.
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And in addition, and it needs to keep being said, frequent burning is damaging in the short term to all the components of the ecosystem except perhaps the trees and the large macropods (the two components always trumpeted by fire managers and the media), and in the long term the trees will suffer too.
RealClimate 2009
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And in addition, and it needs to keep being said, frequent burning is damaging in the short term to all the components of the ecosystem except perhaps the trees and the large macropods (the two components always trumpeted by fire managers and the media), and in the long term the trees will suffer too.
RealClimate 2009
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In Greek, macropod means "long foot", which is appropriate as most macropods have very long hind feet with long strong toes.
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