kangaroo-vine

(kang-ga-ré’vin), n. An Aus- tralian climbing plant, Ci us Baud in i an a (C. antar etic a). Also kangaroo-grape. kangy, a. Another spelling of cangy. kankar (kang’kir), ». (Hind. kankar, limestone, stone, gravel, any small fragments of rock, whether rounded or not.] In India, an impure concretionary carbonate of lime, usually oceurring in nodules, in alluvial deposits, and especially in the older of these formations. It is an important rock in India, especially in the valley of the Lower Ganges, where it is much used as a building-stone in the absence of anything better. Also written kunkur. The commonest and also the most useful stone of India is kankar, a nodular form of impure lime, which is found in almost every river valley, and is used from one end of the peninsula to the other for metalling the roads. W. W. Hunter, Indian Empire, p. 493. kanker}, x. A Middle English spelling of canker. kankerdortt, n. A-variant of canker-dort.