badagarang

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Dharug

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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badagarang

  1. eastern grey kangaroo, Macropus giganteus
    • 1793, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson:
      Hitherto I have spoken only of the large, or grey kangaroo, to which the natives give the name of ‘patagaran’.
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References

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  • Troy, Jakelin (1994). “The Sydney Language”, Macquarie Aboriginal Words. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 69.