- kangaroo - any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail
--1 is a kind of marsupial, pouched mammal
--1 is a member of Macropodidae, family Macropodidae
--1 has particulars:giant kangaroo, great gray kangaroo, Macropus giganteus; wallaby, brush kangaroo; musk kangaroo, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus; rat kangaroo, kangaroo rat