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nabarlek /′naːbəlek/ n. (Spelling variant: narbarlek.) [From Gunwinygu na-barlek (na- is the masculine gender prefix).] A small rock wallaby, Petrogale concinna, of the Kimberley (WA) and eastern Arnhem Land (NT).

1970 Canberra Times 2 Sept. 2/6 She said the ‘natives’, who had asked her to call it Nabarlek (rock wallaby) had helped her so much on her lone trip to Arnhem Land this year that she wanted to do something for them.   1983 R. Strahan Compl. Bk. Austral. Mammals 223 Until the discovery of the marginally smaller Warabi, the Nabarlek was the smallest known macropodid, hence its other common name, Little Rock Wallaby.   1989 M. & S. Cusack One Yr. in Wilderness 73 The towering ochre-coloured sides of the gorge hid nabarleks—the tiny rock-wallaby.   1997 Strahan & Conder Incomplete Bk. Austral. Mammals 31 Over there you can see If you carefully check, On the edge of the scree is a fine nabarlek.   2002 Outback Dec. 36 There's a Narbarlek rock wallaby, and soon afterwards a black wallaroo.   2008 J. French How High can Kangaroo Hop 91 The Nabarlek is the only marsupial that can grow more than the normal four molar teeth.   2012 K. Richardson Aust.'s Amazing Kangaroos 109 Nabarleks are unique among the macropods in having more than 4 or 5 molars in each jaw quadrant.