euro

The name euro was the winner of a contest open to the general public to propose names for the new European currency, and as such is technically a neologism, although it obviously alludes to the common root of geographical names for the continent Europe, derived from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by Zeus as a bull across the Bosporus. According to the official story, the term was coined by Belgian teacher and esperantist Germain Pirlot in 1995, who suggested it in a letter to Jacques Santer, then President of the European Commission.

coin

(numismatics) The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €

euro

euro size

euro style pad


euro

Macropus robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species).


kangaroo

→ Arabic: كَنْغَر (kanḡar)

→ Bengali: ক্যাঙ্গারু (kêṅgaru)

desctree

→ Dutch: kangoeroe
→ Indonesian: kanguru

→ Danish: kænguru

→ Estonian: känguru

→ French: kangourou (see there for further descendants)

→ Finnish: kenguru

→ Georgian: კენგურუ (ḳenguru)

→ German: Känguru, Känguruh (superseded)
→ Luxembourgish: Känguru
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: кенгур
Latin script: kengur

→ Greek: καγκουρό (kagkouró)

→ Hebrew: קֶנְגּוּרוּ (kénguru)

→ Hindi: कंगेरू (kaṅgerū)

→ Hungarian: kenguru

→ Italian: canguro

→ Japanese: カンガルー (kangarū)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kenguru

→ Malayalam: കാംഗരു (kāṅgaru)

→ Manx: kangaroo

→ Niuean: kāgalū

→ Portuguese: canguru

→ Russian: кенгуру́ (kengurú) (see there for further descendants)

→ Slovene: kenguru

→ Spanish: canguro
→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: canguro

→ Swedish: känguru

→ Tokelauan: kāgalū

→ Ukrainian: кенгуру́ (kenhurú)

→ Welsh: cangarŵ

/kæŋ.ɡə.ˈɹuː/

Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”).

bor+

Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru […].

In the woods are the kanguroo, the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].

1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis:

A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.


red

en-adj

red (comparative redder or more red, superlative reddest or most red)

redder (comparative)
more red (comparative)
reddest (superlative)
most red (superlative)

nonred

antonym(s) of “having red as its colour”

antired

antonym(s) of “having red as its colour charge”

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).

punainen

(card games: of the hearts or diamonds suits

a red state

a red Congress

(politics, often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:

(US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.


red

en-noun

red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)

sekobarbitaali

slang: secobarbital — see also secobarbital

(Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade


doe

From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), from Proto-West Germanic *daijā, from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjaną (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).
Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German tē (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.

der

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-doe.wav


wallaby

→ Catalan: ualabi

→ Dutch: wallaby

→ Finnish: vallabi

→ French: wallaby

→ German: Wallaby

→ Irish: valbaí

→ Italian: wallaby

→ Japanese: ワラビー (warabī)

→ Maori: warapī

→ New Latin: Wallabia

→ Polish: walabia

→ Portuguese: wallaby

→ Russian: валлаби (vallabi)

→ Spanish: ualabí

Borrowed from Dharug wollabi (“rock-wallaby”).

bor+

Any of several species of marsupial; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos.


flyer

→ Finnish: flaijeri

→ French: flyer

→ German: Flyer

→ Korean: 플라이어 (peullaieo)

→ Portuguese: flyer

From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).
With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.

طَيَّار

someone who pilots or rides in an airplane


stinker

Today's crossword is a stinker.

I number several authors among my acquaintance […] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

I sat there seething with fury. And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker. […] I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. I... Oh, I can't remember what else I said but, as I say, it was a stinker.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

(slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).

Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.

western grey kangaroo
western grey kangaroo

(Australia, informal) A western grey kangaroo.


roo

(Australia, slang) Clipping of kangaroo.


red kangaroo

A large kangaroo, Osphranter rufus, found in the desert areas of Australia.


quokka

At least 673 quokkas were re-introduced from Rottnest Island to the Marsupial Research Station of the University of Western Australia (254 ha) at Jandakot from 1972 to 1988.

2003, John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence, page 29:

Tammars, quokkas and black-footed rock wallabies inhabit islands in the southwest, while three species of hare wallaby, the burrowing bettong and five species of rock wallaby inhabit various islands in the northwest.

2005, Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 354:

Older unburnt areas (more than 25 years) on their own appear unable to sustain a quokka population.
The largest number of quokkas occurs on Rottnest Island near Perth, where the population estimates vary from 8000 to 12,000 individuals.

2012, Ken Richardson, Australia's Amazing Kangaroos: Their Conservation, Unique Biology and Coexisternce with Humans, page 125:

Setonix brachyurus
Setonix brachyurus#Translingual

A cat-sized marsupial, Setonix brachyurus, of southwestern Australia.


macropod

From macro- + -pod, after Latin Macropodidae. Compare micropod.

A marsupial of the family Macropodidae, which includes the kangaroos, wallabies, tree kangaroos and pademelons.


mala

From Western Desert Language, as Pitjantjatjara mala.

A species of hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus, of arid Australia.


forester

Inherited from Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest + -er. Displaced native Old English wuduweard.

(obsolete or colloquial) A person who lives in a forest.

eastern grey kangaroo
eastern grey kangaroo

(Australia) Any of various species of kangaroo that inhabit bushland, especially the eastern grey kangaroo.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Lethe. Other members of this genus are called tree browns and wood browns.


wallaroo

Any of three closely related species of moderately large macropods, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies.

yuru

any of three intermediate-size macropods


pademelon

Although Pademelons are solitary and territorial by nature, it is not uncommon to witness small groups feeding in close proximity to one another.

2007, Scott Alexander King, Animal Dreaming: The Symbolic and Spiritual Language of the Australasian Animals, page 57:

Kangaroos and their relatives that live in the rainforest include pademelons, wallabies, and tree kangaroos. Pademelons are small kangaroo-like marsupials that prefer solitary nocturnal life in the rainforest.

2008, Barbara A. Holzman, Tropical Forest Biomes, page 122:

Pademelons are a distinct group of small wallabies, considerably smaller than both the giant kangaroos and the other, larger wallabies. When foraging slowly, pademelons usually move on all fours.

2013, Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Wildlife of Australia, page 32:

Any species of the genus Thylogale of small macropods.


kang

Why is it built this way?
Oh, it's a kang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven.
Kang? What is a kang for?
A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but when winter comes, this is the bed everybody'll be in.
You mean togther?
Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully-clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here you'll find out.

1958, 29:45 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, →OCLC:

A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.


kang

en-verb

kang (third-person singular simple present kangs, present participle kanging, simple past and past participle kanged)

kangs (present singular third-person)
kanging (participle present)
kanged (participle past)
kanged (past)

Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.

(Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.


scrub wallaby

She waved out the sidewindow, ‘Another scrub wallaby! That's fifteen not including your side.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 16:

black-striped wallaby
black-striped wallaby

Any of various wallabies living in dense vegetation, especially the black-striped wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, of eastern Queensland and New South Wales.


black-striped wallaby

en-noun

black-striped wallaby (plural black-striped wallabies)

A medium-sized wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, from Queensland and New South Wales


boongary

The boongary sleeps during the day, nestled in a fork in the branches high among the tree-tops.

1990, Reader's Digest, Did You Know?: New Insights Into a World That Is Full of Astonishing Stories:


blue flyer

So named from their bluish-grey fur and speed. Recorded since the 1860s.

The female red kangaroo is referred to as a Blue Flyer, whilst the male is generally known as a Marloo or Boomer.

2006, Lynda Staker, The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods:


tree kangaroo

Any of several Australian macropods, of the genus Dendrolagus, adapted for life in the trees.


western grey kangaroo

western grey kangaroo (plural western grey kangaroos)

A kangaroo of species Macropus fuliginosis, found in most of southern Australia.


antilopine wallaroo

antilopine wallaroo (plural antilopine wallaroos)


eastern grey kangaroo

eastern grey kangaroo (plural eastern grey kangaroos)

Macropus giganteus
Macropus giganteus#Translingual

A species of kangaroo, with a distinctive soft grey coat, Macropus giganteus


antilopine kangaroo

antilopine kangaroo (plural antilopine kangaroos)

A kangaroo of species Macropus antilopinus, found in northern Australia.


antilopine wallaby

antilopine wallaby (plural antilopine wallabies)


antilopine

From New Latin antilope (“antelope”) + -ine.

She kept an antilopine as a pet.


marla

From Irish marla, from Middle English marle. Doublet of marl.

Miss Carney handed us out blank paper and marla,
old plasticine with the colours
all rolled together into brown.

1996, Thomas Kinsella, Model School, Inchicore: Collected Poems, 1956-1994, page 229:

As she sits and plays with Damien, she feels her legs start to tremble from the effort. Her knees seem to disappear.
Plasticine legs, she says to Damien. Old marla legs.

1997, Catherine Dunne, In the Beginning, page 107:


swamp wallaby

A wallaby (Wallabia bicolor), known for its strong odor.


agile wallaby

A wallaby, Macropus agilis, of northern Australia.


pretty-faced wallaby

pretty-faced wallaby (plural pretty-faced wallabies)

A wallaby of species Macropus parryi. endemic to Queensland and northern New South Wales.


rat kangaroo

Any of several small Australian marsupials of the families Potoroidae and Hypsiprymnodontidae.


potoroo

Potoroos resemble bettongs, both in size and lifestyle, but the potoroos have a more tapered head and pointed snout, a less robust build and a shorter tail.

1998, Terence Lindsey, Mammals of Australia, New Holland, published 2004, page 41:

A black man with his back turned to me was putting three potaroos on the fire to cook.

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 368:

Any species of the genus Potorous of the rat kangaroo family Potoroidae, endemic to Australia.


macropodine

Any marsupial of the subfamily Macropodinae


oolacunta

The fabulous oolacunta, a rat kangaroo that is now extinct, streaked across the desert at speeds that made it seem to float above the ground.

2007 July 25, William Grimes, “A Zoologist With a Pouch of Stories”, in New York Times:

An extinct marsupial, the desert rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), that lived in a sand-ridge and gibber-plain habitat in south-western Queensland and north-eastern Australia.


bettong

Recorded in English since 1830–40; from Dharug badang.

Bettongs rather resemble rats, having short noses, short, rounded ears, long hind feet and a naked muzzle tip.

Any of the marsupial genera Bettongia and Aepyprymnus; closely related to kangaroos.


black-footed rock wallaby

black-footed rock wallaby (plural black-footed rock wallabies)

waru

One of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale


whiptail

whiptail (countable and uncountable, plural whiptails)

Social status may be less important to red-necked wallabies, which, unlike whiptails, are "essentially solitary" (McEvoy 1970).

1977, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 4, number 4, page 409:

pretty-faced wallaby
pretty-faced wallaby

A pretty-faced wallaby (Macropus parryi).


boodie

However, the boodie, once common over much of southern Australia, is now only found in numbers on offshore islands on the mid-west coast. Boodies are sociable animals and since they dig burrows, considerable warrens can be formed.

1968, Vincent Serventy, Wildlife of Australia, page 34:

The bettongs live in moderately dry country and with the exception of the Boodie, which digs burrows, all make nests of grass on the ground.

1985, Australia's Amazing Wildlife, page 304:

The work on Boodie Island was the first attempt in Australia to eradicate black rats in the presence of a threatened, non-target mammal.[…]It is likely that as many as 200-300 boodies now inhabit the island.

2002, C. R. Veitch, Michael Norman Clout, editors, Turning the Tide: the Eradication of Invasive Species: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Eradication of Island Invasives, page 224:

(Australia) A species of bettong, Bettongia lesueur.


woylie

Woylies are sometimes referred to as brush-tailed rat kangaroos. This alternative name is an apt description of these small marsupials.

1996, Rees Barrett, Peter Dent, Place, Patter and Process, page 89:

It's a whodunit involving the woylie, the marsupial poster-child for recovery programs involving endangered animals.

2007, The Bulletin, numbers 6559-6566, page 27:

‘Like a woylie,’ said John Dell, ‘Closely related.’
Ah. Of course. Even I'd heard of the woylie. But like most of my countrymen, I couldn't have described one for love nor money.
The woylie belongs to the great treasury of marsupials that we revere and know nothing about. As I learnt that day, the boodie and the woylie are different species of bettong.

2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels Through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 16:

Bettongia penicillata
Bettongia penicillata#Translingual

(Australia) A species of bettong, Bettongia penicillata.


filander

(obsolete) A pademelon (Thylogale spp.).


parma wallaby

First element parma from Thurawal dama + wallaby.

The parma wallaby, Macropus parma, last seen in 1932 and thought to be extinct, was subsequently rediscovered in 1966.

1978, Derrick Ovington, Australian Endangered Species, page 42:

It was thought that parma wallabies were extinct in Australia in 1957, but it is now known that they exist in an area of coastal New South Wales, north of the Hunter River (Maynes 1977).

2003, John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence, page 39:

The rest of the macropods are wallabies. They are usually smaller than kangaroos and wallaroos. The smallest is the parma wallaby (Macropus parma) of New South Wales in Australia. Adult parma wallabies average 18 inches (47 cm) or so in body length, with tails about the same length.

2007, Rebecca Stefoff, The Marsupial Order, page 65:

A rare species of wallaby, Macropus parma.


tammar

tammar (countable and uncountable, plural tammars)

Macropus eugenii
Macropus eugenii#Translingual

(zoology) Macropus eugenii, a small Australian wallaby with a thick, dark coat.


balbarid

His research, which has focused on the few partial kangaroo skeletons found, has provided insights into why the bulungamayine kangaroos were so successful while the balbarids vanished.

2004, Tim Flannery, Country: A Continent, a Scientist & Kangaroo, Text Publishing, page 118:

The other interesting feature of the balbarids is that they may not have hopped because the forelimbs and hindlimbs were of similar length and they had the first digit on each hind foot, similar to the Musky Rat-kangaroo.

2010, Stephen Jackson, Karl Vernes, Kangaroo: A portrait of an extraordinary marsupial, Allen & Unwin, page 15:

As in the late Oligocene, the most diverse macropodoids of the early Miocene are balbarids.

2012, Karen H. Black et al., “The Rise of Australian Marsupials”, in John A. Talent, editor, Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time, Springer, page 1026:

(zoology) Any member of the family †Balbaridae of extinct kangaroos.


hypsiprymnodontid

(zoology) A musky rat-kangaroo, sole member of the family Hypsiprymnodontidae.


macropodid

(zoology) Any member of the Macropodidae; a kangaroo.


potoroid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Potoroidae; a potoroo or bettong.


flashjack

bridled nailtail wallaby
bridled nailtail wallaby

(Australia, informal) The bridled nailtail wallaby.


jerboa kangaroo

jerboa kangaroo (plural jerboa kangaroos)


hare kangaroo

(archaic) A small species of kangaroo (Lagorchestes leporides), resembling the hare in size and colour.


nail-tail wallaby

nail-tail wallaby (plural nail-tail wallabies)

nailtail wallaby
nailtail wallaby#English


warru

The black-flanked rock wallaby (Petrogale lateralis).


nailtail wallaby

nailtail wallaby (plural nailtail wallabies)

Any of the genus Onychogalea of Australian macropods, distinguished by a horny spur at the end of the tail.


long-footed potoroo

long-footed potoroo (plural long-footed potoroos)

Potorous longipes, a large potoroo of southeastern Australia.


long-nosed potoroo

long-nosed potoroo (plural long-nosed potoroos)

Potorous tridactylus, an Australian potoroo with an elongated pointed rostral region.


sthenurine

Any extinct marsupial of the subfamily †Sthenurinae.


balbarine

Any macropod of the subfamily Balbarinae


bulungamayine

Any extinct kangaroo in the potoroid subfamily Bulungamayinae


hare-wallaby

Any of several wallabies of the genera Lagorchestes and Lagostrophus.


warabi

From Wunambal warabi (“mythological site in the Kimberley region (mistakenly taken as name of marsupial)”).

bor

(Australia) Synonym of monjon (“species of rock-wallaby”)


potoroine

Any small marsupial of the family Potoroidae


fangaroo

(informal) An extinct fanged kangaroo, Balbaroo fangaroo.


dingiso

A tree kangaroo Dendrolagus mbaiso of New Guinea


rock-wallaby

Any of the wallabies of the genus Petrogale.


monjon

Petrogale burbidgei, the smallest of the rock-wallabies.


Bennett's wallaby

en-noun

Bennett's wallaby (plural Bennett's wallabies)

From the name of Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836), English zoologist.

All winter he has been looking for the track, living in caves […] ; for food he has had nothing but Bennett's wallaby, the odd pademelon.

1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 22

A subspecies of red-necked wallaby, Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus, native to Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.


red-necked wallaby

red-necked wallaby (plural red-necked wallabies)

Notamacropus rufogriseus, a species of wallaby.


musky rat-kangaroo

musky rat-kangaroo (plural musky rat-kangaroos)

A species of hypsiprymnodontid marsupial, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, of northeast Queensland; Australia's smallest kangaroo species.


nabarlek

From Gunwinggu na-barlek (“male rock-wallaby”).

bor

A species of rock-wallaby, Petrogale concinna, of northern Australia.


marloo

A term common to several Indigenous languages of eastern Australian, such as Warlpiri marlu.


tammar wallaby

en-noun

tammar wallaby (plural tammar wallabies)


toolache

An extinct species of marsupial, Macropus greyii (or Notamacropus greyii), of southeastern South Australia and southwestern Victoria.


merrin

From Yari Yari, a Kulinic language of southern Australian.

A species of nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata, of NSW and Qld, with distinctive bridle-like markings.


lagostrophine

Any marsupial of the macropodid subfamily Lagostrophinae.


short-faced kangaroo

short-faced kangaroo (plural short-faced kangaroos)