kangaroo

kangaroo
noun
  1. a large plant-eating marsupial with a long powerful tail and strongly developed hindlimbs that enable it to travel by leaping, found only in Australia and New Guinea
    袋鼠
  2. Genus Macropus, family Macropodidae: several species
    大袋鼠属,袋鼠科:数种
常用词组
have kangaroos in the (或one's) top paddock
  1. (Austral. informal)be mad or eccentric
    (澳,非正式)疯狂的;古怪的
语源
  1. late 18th cent.: the name of a specific kind of kangaroo in an extinct Aboriginal language of North Queensland
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