wallaby

«wallaby» in Mova's school dictionary: an Australian animal like a small kangaroo that hops and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a wallaby, wallabies; the Wallabies)

meaning for a pupil

1) A wallaby is an Australian animal like a small kangaroo that hops and carries its baby (a joey) in a pouch. tree →

2) (Australia, sport) The Wallabies are the national rugby union team of Australia. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about marsupials, Australian animals and habitats; in New Zealand some wallabies are pests; in sport news, the Wallabies play rugby; phrases: rock wallaby.

examples

• A wallaby hopped across the dusty track. tree →
• A wallaby is smaller than a kangaroo. tree →
• The baby wallaby peeped out of the pouch. tree →
• Rock wallabies live among cliffs and boulders. tree →
• The Wallabies beat the All Blacks on Saturday (Australia, sport). tree →
• Wallabies are marsupials. tree →

note

Plural: wallabies (y → ies). A marsupial: the mother carries the young in a pouch. Baby is called a «joey».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wallaby» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.