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Definition of Metatheria
1. Noun. Pouched animals.
Exact synonyms: Subclass Metatheria
Group relationships: Class Mammalia, Mammalia
Member holonyms: Marsupialia, Order Marsupialia
Generic synonyms: Class
Group relationships: Class Mammalia, Mammalia
Member holonyms: Marsupialia, Order Marsupialia
Generic synonyms: Class
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metatheria
Literary usage of Metatheria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"... enough to be regarded as separate branches of the primitive mammalian stock,
Huxley proposed the less objectionable titles Prototheria, metatheria, ..."
2. Studies in Comparative Odontology by Arthur Swayne Underwood (1903)
"CHAPTER IX PROTOTHERIA AND metatheria PROTOTHERIA THESE creatures represent the
lowest type of evolution of the mammalian class, and present many points of ..."
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