Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Macropodidæ, established by Shaw in 1800. M. major is the giant kangaroo, or forester. See
forester , 4, and cut underkangaroo . - noun A generic name which has been variously used for certain fishes, birds, insects, and crustaceans, but is no longer in use, being antedated by the same name in mammalogy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the family Macropodidae: typical kangaroos and wallabies
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Examples
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My fall BIOS independent studies student, Raymond Deckel is investigating just how small a hole Octopus macropus can fit through as well as how long it takes them to squeeze through different sizes of holes.
Archive 2006-12-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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My fall BIOS independent studies student, Raymond Deckel is investigating just how small a hole Octopus macropus can fit through as well as how long it takes them to squeeze through different sizes of holes.
Octopi Houdini Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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Kangaroos were in very great numbers: our dogs took four; they were of that species called by Dr. Smith macropus elegans, and are very rare on the east coast.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003
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At the head of the flying troop was a male five feet high, a magnificent specimen of the macropus giganteus, an “old man,” as the bushmen say.
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At the head of the flying troop was a male five feet high, a magnificent specimen of the macropus giganteus, an "old man," as the bushmen say.
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The sloths and armadilloes, -- little fitted by nature for long journeys, -- would have required to be ferried across the Atlantic to the regions in which the remains of the megatherium and glyptodon lie entombed; the kangaroo and wombat, to the insulated continent that contains the bones of the extinct macropus and phalcolomys; and the New
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Dr. Smith macropus elegans, and are very rare on the east coast.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales John Oxley 1804
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A young kangaroo (macropus fuliginosus) investigates the world from its mother's pouch in the zoo in Basel, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 11, 2009.
ruzuzu commented on the word macropus
"See forester, 4, and cut under kangaroo."
--The Century Dictionary
July 16, 2014