Definition of Family Macropodidae

1. Noun. Kangaroos; wallabies.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Macropodidae

family Lophosoriaceae
family Loranthaceae
family Lorisidae
family Loxomataceae
family Lucanidae
family Lutjanidae
family Luvaridae
family Lycaenidae
family Lycoperdaceae
family Lycopodiaceae
family Lycosidae
family Lygaeidae
family Lymantriidae
family Lythraceae
family Machilidae
family Macropodidae (current term)
family Macrorhamphosidae
family Macrouridae
family Macruridae
family Magnoliaceae
family Majidae
family Malacanthidae
family Malpighiaceae
family Malvaceae
family Mammutidae
family Manidae
family Manteidae
family Mantidae
family Mantispidae
family Marantaceae

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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