kangaroos Definition

any of various herbivorous leaping marsupial mammals (family Macropodidae) of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands with a small head, large ears, long powerful hind legs, a long thick tail used as a support and in balancing, and rather small forelegs not used in locomotion

a large kangaroo (Macropus rufus) of the dry plains of inland Australia with the male having a reddish-brown coat