wallaroo

[wol-uh-roo]

wal·la·roo

[wol-uh-roo]
noun, plural wal·la·roos, (especially collectively) wal·la·roo.
any of several large kangaroos of the genus Macropus (Osphranter), of the grassy plains of Australia, especially M. robustus, having a reddish-gray coat and inhabiting rocky hills.
Also called euro.


Origin:
1820–30; < Dharuk wa-la-ru
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Wallaroo is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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wallaroo (ˌwɒləˈruː)
 
n , pl -roos, -roo
a large stocky Australian kangaroo, Macropus (or Osphranter) robustus, of rocky regions
 
[C19: from native Australian wolarū]

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