badagarang

Dharug

Alternative forms

• patagaran, patagarang

Noun

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

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