rat kangaroo

Questions about rat kangaroo

What does rat kangaroo mean?

rat kangaroo means "any of several rabbit-sized ratlike Australian kangaroos".

What is another word for rat kangaroo?

Close synonyms include kangaroo rat. 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 rat kangaroo a common word?

rat 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.