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Definition of Family Didelphidae
1. Noun. Opossums.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Marsupialia, Order Marsupialia
Member holonyms: Opossum, Possum, Didelphis, Genus Didelphis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Didelphidae
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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