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Mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
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marsupial
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
marsupial \mar*su"pi*al\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Marsupialia.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals living primarily in Australasia and the Americas . A distinctive characteristic, common to many species , is that most of the young are carried in a pouch . Well-known marsupials include kangaroos , wallabies , the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a marsupial. 2 (context anatomy English) Of or relating to a marsupium. n. A mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala, or else ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, with -al (1) + Modern Latin marsupialis "having a pouch," coined from Late Latin marsupium "pouch, purse" (Classical Latin marsuppium ), from Greek marsipion , diminutive of marsipos "bag, pouch," of foreign, possibly oriental, origin. As a noun ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS â–ª The first stop is Featherdale Wildlife Park, where buses are met by a park agent holding a small marsupial .
Usage examples of marsupial.
Mammals, marsupials, monotremes, birds, reptiles, worms, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, planaria, nematodes, protists, fungi, even a horticultural center.
Lastly, the law of the long endurance of allied forms on the same continent,--of marsupials in Australia, of edentata in America, and other such cases,--is intelligible, for within a confined country, the recent and the extinct will naturally be allied by descent.
Koalas, dingoes, kangaroos, and other marsupials huddled in the creek along with snakes and hares, emus, kiwis, and other birds.
No marsupial freaks on Korai, no platypi or swimming birds or tree-climbing kangaroos or flying fish.
If any of my readers hunger and thirst for information concerning the descent of the cat through marsupial ancestors and mesozoic mammals to the generalized placental or monodelphous carnivora of to-day, let them consult St.
Mammals, marsupials, monotremes, birds, reptiles, worms, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, planaria, nematodes, protists, fungi, even a horticultural center.
The extinctions took millions of years, but the empire of the marsupials was done.
As I have already remarked in Chapter III, the most obvious biological analogy is to be found among the marsupials: kangaroos, opposums, wallabies, etc.
There were kangaroos, possums, lizards, and many marsupial rats, all terrified.
There was a pair of deltatheridiums, ratlike omnivores, neither marsupial nor placental, a unique line that would not outlive the dinosaurs.
Marsupial mice even seem to be having lots more fun than we do, if the duration of their copulations (up to twelve hours) is any indication.
He discarded the delimbed corpse and groped about in his marsupial pouch and produced a tablet and tiny writing instrument.
He quickly became a leading expert on all kinds of animals living and extinct—from platypuses, echidnas, and other newly discovered marsupials to the hapless dodo and the extinct giant birds called moas that had roamed New Zealand until eaten out of existence by the Maoris.
If it's native, it's up to you, but our marsupial mice don't seem to be implicated in much disease transmission, and those in the antechinus group make mincemeat out of pest mice!
Knowledge of quantum mechanics does not help one understand why introduced placental predators have exterminated so many Australian marsupial species, or why the Allied Powers rather than the Central Powers won World War I.