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This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages. Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang , have become widely used in other varieties of English , and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond English.
A kangaroo word is a word that contains all the letters of one of its synonyms, called a joey word, arranged so that these letters appear in the same order in both words. For example, the word in flammable is a kangaroo word containing the joey word flammable ; the words act ion, malign ant, health iness, and ad vertisement also each include ...
The kangaroo is the mascot for State University of New York at Canton in Canton (town), New York. The kangaroo is the mascot for Wilmington Friends School in Wilmington, Delaware. Moe the Kangaroo is the mascot for Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. However, VMI's sports teams are known as the VMI Keydets. Nashville Kangaroos
Many forest animals pass the ball around. A unicycling teddy bear, a giant frog, a monkey, a pelican, a kangaroo, a big gopher, a second brown bear in a tree, two more unicycling brown bears and a unicycling raccoon who drops it into the hole. Number 8 is the only segment where the ball doesn't enter the scene immediately. Solo: Electric Guitar
It is also known as the great grey kangaroo and the forester kangaroo. Although a big eastern grey male can typically weigh up to 69 kg (152 lb) and have a length of well over 2 m (6 ft 7 in), [ 4 ] the scientific name, Macropus giganteus (gigantic large-foot), is misleading: the red kangaroo of the semi-arid inland is larger, weighing up to 90 ...
Mathematical Kangaroo (also known as Kangaroo challenge, or jeu-concours Kangourou in French) is an international mathematics competition in over 77 countries. There are six levels of participation, ranging from grade 1 to grade 12.
They are allied to the Macropodiformes, the suborder of kangaroo, wallaby, and other rat-kangaroo genera and is the only genus in the tribe Potoroini. All three extant species are threatened by ecological changes since the colonisation of Australia, especially the long-footed potoroo Potorous longipes ( endangered ) and P. gilbertii ...
Kangaroo unicycle, a type of unicycle that has both the cranks facing in the same direction; Kangaroo, a procedure of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; Kangaroo word, a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning; Kangaroo court, a sham legal proceeding; Kangaroo, a 1923 novel by D. H. Lawrence