Definition of Family Didelphidae

1. Noun. Opossums.

Exact synonyms: Didelphidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Marsupialia, Order Marsupialia
Member holonyms: Opossum, Possum, Didelphis, Genus Didelphis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Didelphidae

family Daubentoniidae
family Davalliaceae
family Delphinidae
family Dematiaceae
family Dendrocolaptidae
family Dennstaedtiaceae
family Dermestidae
family Dermochelyidae
family Desmidiaceae
family Desmodontidae
family Diapensiaceae
family Diaspididae
family Dicamptodontidae
family Dicranaceae
family Didelphidae (current term)
family Dilleniaceae
family Dinornithidae
family Diodontidae
family Diomedeidae
family Dioscoreaceae
family Dipodidae
family Dipsacaceae
family Dipterocarpaceae
family Discoglossidae
family Doliolidae
family Dracunculidae
family Drepanididae
family Dromaeosauridae
family Droseraceae

Literary usage of Family Didelphidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"Some of the family Didelphidae, which includes all the American Marsupials, are very small and few of them attain the size of a cat. ..."

2. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"Some of the family Didelphidae, which includes all the American Marsupials, are very small and few of them attain the size of a cat. ..."

3. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"... from the northern land masses, retained its ancient population of marsupial carnivores." The true opossums are a family (Didelphidae) related to the ..."

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