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Rock wallaby   /rɑk wˈɑləbi/   Listen
Rock wallaby

noun
1.
Slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas.  Synonym: rock kangaroo.






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"Rock wallaby" Quotes from Famous Books



... was very winding, from having to avoid the basalt, which was laming some of the cattle, besides wrenching off the heads of the horse-shoe nails: it could not be altogether avoided, and made it past noon before the cattle reached the camp. A native companion, a rock wallaby, and a young red kangaroo were the result of the hunting in the afternoon, which saved the necessity of having to kill a beast: this would have been specially inconvenient, if not impossible here, for the natives had burnt ...
— The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine • Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine



Words linked to "Rock wallaby" :   wallaby, Petrogale, genus Petrogale, brush kangaroo



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