wallaby, brush kangaroo

any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos often brightly colored

• common wallaby, Macropus agiles — height 30 inches
• hare wallaby, kangaroo hare — small Australian wallaby that resembles a hare and has persistent teeth
• nail-tailed wallaby, nail-tailed kangaroo — small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail
• rock wallaby, rock kangaroo — slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas
• pademelon, paddymelon — small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea
• tree wallaby, tree kangaroo — arboreal wallabies of New Guinea and northern Australia having hind and forelegs of similar length

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