What is "opossums"

Usage examples of "opossums".

Some of the cages held identifiable rabbits and raccoons and opossums and such, but many of the cages held beasts that no one beside Selznak the Dwarf had seen before.

But the young doctor came and the old doctor came, and the infants were laid in cotton-wool, and the room heated up to keep them warm, and babyteaspoonfuls of milk given them, and after being kept alive in this way, like the young of opossums and kangaroos, they came to a conclusion about which they did not seem to have made up their thinking-pulps for some weeks, namely, to go on trying to cross the sea of life by tugging at the four-and-twenty oars which must be pulled day and night until the unknown shore is reached, and the oars lie at rest under the folded hands.