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wallaroo|ˈwɒləruː|
Also 9 wallooroo, wolloroo (see Morris Austral Engl.), walluru.
[Native Australian wolarū: cf. wallaby.]
A large species of kangaroo, Macropus robustus; in Queensland and New South Wales applied chiefly to the black variety. Also wallaroo kangaroo.
1826J. Atkinson Agric. & Grazing N.S.W. ii. 24 There is also found far in the interior another variety [of kangaroo], called wallaroos; they are much larger than any of the others. 1827P. Cunningham Two Years N.S.W. I. xvii. 309 The wallaroo, of a blackish colour, with coarse shaggy fur, inhabiting the hills. 1845J. O. Balfour Sk. N.S. Wales 25 The wallaroo kangaroo is of a darkish red colour, and weighs about 60 lbs. 1847Leichhardt Jrnl. xiii. 458 He had been guided by a beaten track of Wallurus. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right v, The southern forest where..the forester kangaroo and the wallaroo alone run. |
