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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallaby/#m1)

2) (Australia, sport) The Wallabies are the national rugby union team of Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallaby/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallaby/#x1)
- A wallaby is smaller than a kangaroo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallaby/#x2)
- The baby wallaby peeped out of the pouch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallaby/#x3)
- Rock wallabies live among cliffs and boulders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallaby/#x4)
- The Wallabies beat the All Blacks on Saturday (Australia, sport). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallaby/#x5)
- Wallabies are marsupials. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallaby/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallaby/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.