Crossword clues for marsupial
marsupial
- Pocket protector?
- Mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
- Mammal with a pouch
- One with a pouch to cook pilau under ruins
- One that always pockets litter
- Frenchman left au pairs inside playing possum?
- Foolishly, Paul's aim to box head of rampant kangaroo, perhaps?
- Perhaps Joey is up, alarm having gone off
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
marsupial \mar*su"pi*al\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Marsupialia.
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 from 1805.
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 pouchless members of the Marsupialia like the shrew opposum.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the marsupials; "marsupial animals"
n. mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried [syn: pouched mammal]
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 koala, possums, opossums, wombats, and the Tasmanian devil. Other marsupials include the numbat, bandicoots, bettongs, the bilby, quolls, and the quokka.
Marsupials represent the clade originating with the last common ancestor of extant metatherians. Like other mammals in the Metatheria, they are characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young, often residing in a pouch with the mother for a certain time after birth. Close to 70% of the 334 extant species occur in the Australian continent (the mainland, Tasmania, New Guinea and nearby islands) with the remaining 100 found in the Americas, primarily in South America, but with thirteen in Central America, and one in North America north of Mexico.
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.