the scientific name of thegenus of Australian marsupials called Tree-Kangaroos (q.v.). (Grk. dendron, a tree, and lagows, ahare.) Unlike the other kangaroos, their fore limbs are nearlyas long as the hinder pair, and thus adapted for arboreal life.There are five species, three belong to New Guinea and two toQueensland; they are the Queensland Tree-Kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi; Bennett's T. – k., D. bennettianus; Black T. – k., D. ursinus : BrownT. – k., D. inustus; Doria's T. – k., D. dorianus.See Kangaroo.