: any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos (especially genus Notamacropus) compare rock wallaby
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Rex the wallaby is back home safe after spending more than a day on the loose in Gloucester County, New Jersey, thanks in part to a group of local teenagers who helped capture him near a shopping center.—Ross Dimattei, CBS News, 1 Jan. 2026 New Jersey authorities are using drones to search for a runaway wallaby who hopped his way off an animal farm in Gloucester County on Monday night.—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025 According to Bush Heritage Australia, a nonprofit conservation organization, wallabies are animals endemic to Australia that share many features to kangaroos, but are much smaller.—Mason Leath, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2025 This wallaby would be hoppy to grab it.—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wallaby
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Dharuk (Australian aboriginal language of the Port Jackson area) walabi, waliba