Jerboa is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 88 anagrams from letters in jerboa (abejor).
1655-65; New Latin Arabic yarbūʿ; see gerbil
The jerboa has very long hind legs, and a habit of jumping, so that it resembles superficially (but not really) a small kangaroo.
Some commentators on the Old Testament translate the word Akbar as jerboa.
A little later he was surprised to observe that the animal "went only upon two legs, making vast bounds just as the jerboa does."
A double parallel to this modification is seen in the jerboa among the ungulates, and in the kangaroo among the marsupials.
Like their great cousins—the kangaroos—Mrs. jerboa often carries her babies on her back when she goes out to seek food.
The animal suggests a large jerboa in appearance on account of its jumping habits, the long hind-limbs, and the long tail.
Their hind-legs are much shorter than those of the jerboa, and their tail is garnished with but a few short, stiff hairs.
A most unusual family of skilled house-builders are the brush-tailed rat-kangaroos, or jerboa kangaroos of Australia and Tasmania.
That the jerboa may be one of the Akbarim is rendered likely by the prohibition in Lev.
As the new-comer got on his feet again my hope gained new life, and now our jerboa is my delight.