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Yes. The word kangaroo is a Scrabble US word. The word kangaroo is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word kangaroo is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

KANGAROO,

6-letter words (3 found)

ANGORA,ANORAK,ORGANA,

5-letter words (14 found)

AGORA,ARGAN,ARGON,GRANA,GROAN,KANGA,KAROO,KRANG,KRONA,KROON,NAGOR,ORANG,ORGAN,RANGA,

4-letter words (40 found)

AGAR,AGON,AGRO,ANGA,ANOA,ARAK,ARNA,GNAR,GONK,GOOK,GOON,GOOR,GORA,GRAN,GROK,KAGO,KANA,KANG,KAON,KARA,KARN,KARO,KNAG,KNAR,KOAN,KORA,KORO,NAGA,NARK,NOOK,NORK,OKRA,RAGA,RANA,RANG,RANK,ROAN,RONG,ROOK,ROON,

3-letter words (31 found)

AGA,AGO,AKA,ANA,ARK,GAK,GAN,GAR,GOA,GON,GOO,GOR,KOA,KON,KOR,NAG,NOG,NOO,NOR,OAK,OAR,OKA,ONO,OON,OOR,ORA,ORG,RAG,RAN,ROK,ROO,

2-letter words (13 found)

AA,AG,AN,AR,GO,KA,KO,NA,NO,OK,ON,OO,OR,

You can make 102 words from kangaroo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of kangaroo

kangaroo

Alternative forms

  • kangooroo, kanguroo, kanguru (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kăng-gə-ro͞oʹ, IPA(key): /kæŋ.ɡə.ˈɹuː/

Noun

kangaroo (plural kangaroos)

  2. A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia. [from 18th c.]
  3. (Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.

Synonyms

  • (Macropodidae): macropod, roo
  • (jacket): bunny hug, hoodie, kangaroo jacket

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Arabic: كَنْغَر (kanḡar), كنقر (kangar, kanqar), قنغر (qangar), كنجر (kangar), قنقر (qanqar)
  • → Bengali: ক্যাঙ্গারু (kêṅgaru)
  • → Dutch: kangoeroe
    • → Indonesian: kanguru
  • → Danish: kænguru
  • → German: Känguru
  • → Estonian: känguru
  • → French: kangourou (see there for further descendants)
  • → Finnish: kenguru
  • → Hindi: कंगेरू (kaṅgerū)
  • → Hungarian: kenguru
  • → Italian: canguro
  • → Japanese: カンガルー (kangarū)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: kenguru
  • → Malayalam: കാംഗരു (kāṅgaru), കംഗാരു (kaṅgāru), കങ്കാരു (kaṅkāru)
  • → 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

Translations

See also

  • joey
  • marsupial
  • wallaby
  • wallaroo

Verb

kangaroo (third-person singular simple present kangaroos, present participle kangarooing, simple past and past participle kangarooed)

  1. To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
  2. (intransitive) To hunt kangaroo.
  3. (intransitive) To move like a kangaroo.

Adjective

kangaroo (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Australia.
    • 2017, Jeff Madura, CHANDRASEKHAR & MADURA KRISHNAMURTI (JEFF & HOQUE, ARIFUL.), Ariful Hoque, International Financial Management with Student Resource Access 12 Months, Cengage AU (→ISBN), page 667:
      Furthermore, the issuers access the kangaroo bond market in order to diversify their funding sources. ... driven by factors such as the relative cost of issuance, including hedging costs and the liquidity of underlying derivative and bond markets.
  2. (finance, investments) Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.

References

  • R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN
  • “kangaroo” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English kangaroo.

Noun

kangaroo m (genitive singular kangaroo, plural kangarooghyn)

  1. kangaroo

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