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wallaby (iou)



wallaby noun. L18.
[Aboriginal wolaba.]
Any of various smaller kangaroos, including the majority of the members of the family Macropodidae. L18.
forest wallaby, red-necked wallaby, scrub wallaby, rock wallaby, whiptail wallaby, etc. on the wallaby (track) Austral. slang tramping about as a vagrant; unemployed.
(Wallaby.) A member of the Australian international rugby union team. E20.
Country Life The Wallabies are about to play the first international of their tour against Scotland.
Comb.: wallaby-bush a small S. Australian tree with reddish wood, Beyeria viscosa; also called pinkwood; wallaby-grass any of various tufted pasture grasses of Australia and New Zealand, mainly of the genus Danthonia.