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FAMILY MACROPODIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does family Macropodidae mean?

• FAMILY MACROPODIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY MACROPODIDAE has 1 sense:

1. kangaroos; wallabies

Familiarity information: FAMILY MACROPODIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY MACROPODIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

family Macropodidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Kangaroos; wallabies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Macropodidae; Macropodidae

Hypernyms ("family Macropodidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Macropodidae"):

genus Hypsiprymnodon; Hypsiprymnodon (musk kangaroos)

Dendrolagus; genus Dendrolagus (tree wallabies)

genus Thylogale; Thylogale (pademelons)

genus Petrogale; Petrogale (rock wallabies)

genus Onychogalea; Onychogalea (a genus of Macropodidae)

genus Lagorchestes; Lagorchestes (hare wallabies)

genus Macropus; Macropus (type genus of the family Macropodidae: typical kangaroos and wallabies)

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

Potoroinae; subfamily Potoroinae (rat kangaroos)

Holonyms ("family Macropodidae" is a member of...):

Marsupialia; order Marsupialia (coextensive with the subclass Metatheria)

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