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Definition of Didelphidae
1. Noun. Opossums.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Marsupialia, Order Marsupialia
Member holonyms: Opossum, Possum, Didelphis, Genus Didelphis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Didelphidae
Literary usage of Didelphidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mammalia in Their Relation to Primeval Times by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1886)
"The Didelphidae, or Marsupial Eats, are now confined to southern and central
America. Neither geology nor palaeontology gives us any clue as to how this has ..."
2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1837)
"... group to the Simiae among the Quadrumana, so also the Didelphidae in the former
family may be considered as representing the Lemuridae in the latter. ..."
3. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1876)
"... and that the Didelphidae (Opossums) lie buried in the same European soils.
It might almost appear that it was pre-eminently the division of arboreal ..."
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