Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

balbarid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bal-barid
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the family †Balbaridae of extinct kangaroos.

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

balbarids (plural)

Questions

What does balbarid mean?: Any member of the family †Balbaridae of extinct kangaroos.

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