brush kangaroo

Questions about brush kangaroo

What does brush kangaroo mean?

brush kangaroo means "any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored".

What is another word for brush kangaroo?

Close synonyms include wallaby. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brush kangaroo a common word?

brush kangaroo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.