Crossword clues for possum
possum
- Pogo of the comics, for one
- Animal frequently seen as roadkill
- Something animals play
- Pretend to be asleep (with "play")
- Play --- (feign death)
- Play __: feign sleep
- Play ___ (pretend to be asleep)
- Play ___ (feign unconsciousness)
- Play ___ (feign death)
- Nocturnal arboreal marsupial
- Marsupial, familiarly
- Marsupial seen in North America
- It might play dead
- Certain marsupial
- Australasian marsupial
- Animal that might play dead
- "Watch the Girl Destroy Me" ___ Dixon
- "Playing" critter
- Woods critter
- Dead player?
- Play ___ (feign sleep)
- Nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America
- Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
- Play ___ (feign death to trick a predator)
- Play ___ (dissemble)
- What Pogo plays
- Small animal with a pouch
- Australian marsupial with dense fur and a long tail
- American marsupial, commonly
- Pogo, for one
- Nocturnal marsupial
- Death-feigning critter
- Pretend to be asleep or dead (with "play")
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opossum \O*pos"sum\, n. [Of N. American Indian origin.] (Zo["o]l.) Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes; called also possum. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana.
Note: Several related species are found in South America. The water opossum of Brazil ( Chironectes variegatus), which has the hind feet, webbed, is provided with a marsupial pouch and with cheek pouches. It is called also yapock.
Opossum mouse. (Zo["o]l.) See Flying mouse, under Flying.
Opossum shrimp (Zo["o]l.), any schizopod crustacean of the genus Mysis and allied genera. See Schizopoda.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, shortened form of opossum. Phrase play possum is first recorded 1822.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas. 2 Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A possum (plural form: possums ) is any of about 70 small- to medium-sized arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi (and introduced to New Zealand and China). The name derives from their resemblance to the opossums of the Americas (the name is from Algonquian wapathemwa, not Greek or Latin, so the plural is possums, not possa or possi). Although opossums are also marsupials, possums are more closely related to other Australian marsupials such as kangaroos.
Possums are quadrupedal diprotodont marsupials with long tails. The smallest possum, indeed the smallest diprotodont marsupial, is the Tasmanian pygmy possum, with an adult head-body length of and a weight of . The largest are the two species of bear cuscus which may exceed . Possums are typically nocturnal and at least partially arboreal. The various species inhabit most vegetated habitats, and several species have adjusted well to urban settings. Diets range from generalist herbivores or omnivores (the common brushtail possum) to specialist browsers of eucalyptus ( greater glider), insectivores ( mountain pygmy possum) and nectar-feeders ( honey possum).
A possum is any of a number of arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi.
Possum may also refer to:
- Opossum or possum, an order of marsupials native to the Americas
Usage examples of "possum".
Mrs Possum bit him savagely and naughty Blinky at once kicked her, scratching and ripping her best hat to shreds.
Miss Possum, blushing, and Blinky just managed in time to avoid being hugged.
When they came to the foot of the tree where Blinky and Miss Possum were sitting, Percy gave his order in a ringing voice and he looked every inch a soldier, as he stood as stiff as a poker.
Percy, as he gave the order to march, much to the relief of Blinky and Miss Possum.
He had followed the advice of a Melanesian boy and every night he had applied wisps of kunai grass soaked in the urine of the Cuscus or Coconut Possum.
A possum yarred from the big eucalypt Jack had left standing behind to shade the cottage, and Rory answered its challenge with staccato yaps.
Granny Goanna would eat a possum as soon as look at it, and as for Mrs Snake, she tried to kill me when I was a baby.
Before sunrise three mornings earlier, Lowan had killed a possum with a pouchful of babies.
We draped ourselves appropriately over our chairs and played possum as the door unlocked and Virgie stepped into the room.
A sharp barking told where Possum still waged hysterical and baffled war on the Douglass squirrels.
Night For Possums 1644--Wayaway 1668--Summer Mountain 1692--Butterfly Montane 1714--Spirit Of The Sun 1757--.
Possum was composed primarily of crystals: plagioclase, pyroxene, ilmenite, olivine, and other minerals.
Rollo regarded the possum with identical looks of calculation, assessing its plumpness and possible speed.
English accent, she had the rough speech I associated with people who had been in the backcountry for three or four generations, speaking to no one in the meantime save raccoons, possums, and one another.
Rabbits, squirrels, skunks, possums, raccoons, a million birds, a frightening assortment of green and black snakesall nonpoisonous I was reassuredand dozens of cats.