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Definition of Family Macropodidae
1. Noun. Kangaroos; wallabies.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Marsupialia, Order Marsupialia
Member holonyms: Kangaroo, Genus Macropus, Macropus, Genus Lagorchestes, Lagorchestes, Genus Onychogalea, Onychogalea, Genus Petrogale, Petrogale, Genus Thylogale, Thylogale, Dendrolagus, Genus Dendrolagus, Genus Hypsiprymnodon, Hypsiprymnodon, Potoroinae, Subfamily Potoroinae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Macropodidae
Literary usage of Family Macropodidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. ... Mineral Products of New South Wales by New South Wales Dept. of Mines, Harrie Wood, Charles Smith Wilkinson, Archibald Liversidge, Robert Etheridge, Robert Logan Jack (1882)
"family Macropodidae: Genera Macropus, ... family Macropodidae: The Mandibular
dentition and parts of the Skeleton of ..."
2. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Augustus Henry Keane (1888)
"The largest and most remarkable marsupials now living are the kangaroos, forming
the family Macropodidae, of which about nine large and more than forty ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"KANGAROO, the universally accepted, though not apparently the native, designation
of the more typical representatives of the marsupial family Macropodidae. ..."
4. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"They form a family (Macropodidae) which is spread Kanga- over both Australia and
New Guinea, and" includes ro°3' over fifty species. ..."
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