kangaroo

any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail

• giant kangaroo, great gray kangaroo, Macropus giganteus — very large grayish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas
• wallaby, brush kangaroo — any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos often brightly colored
• musk kangaroo, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus — small kangaroo of northeastern Australia
• rat kangaroo, kangaroo rat — any of several rabbit-sized rat-like Australian kangaroos

• marsupial, pouched mammal — mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried

• Macropodidae, family Macropodidae — kangaroos; wallabies