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Definition of Marsupial
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the marsupials. "Marsupial animals"
2. Noun. Mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried.
Generic synonyms: Metatherian
Group relationships: Marsupialia, Order Marsupialia
Specialized synonyms: Opossum, Possum, Opossum Rat, Bandicoot, Kangaroo, Opossum, Phalanger, Possum, Wombat, Dasyurid, Dasyurid Marsupial, Marsupial Mole, Notoryctus Typhlops, Pouched Mole
Definition of Marsupial
1. a. Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.
2. n. One of the Marsupialia.
Definition of Marsupial
1. Noun. A mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala, or else pouchless members of the Marsupialia like the shrew opposum. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a marsupial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Marsupial
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsupial
Literary usage of Marsupial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"ON THE EXTINCT marsupial ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA. The following is an abstract of
a lecture recently delivered by Professor Owen, at the Government School of ..."
2. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"All the species which he had reconstructed from those fossils belonged to the
same low group of mammalia, with small brains, to which the living marsupial ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1845)
"Report on the extinct Mammals of Australia, with Descriptions of certain Fossils
indicative of the former Existence in that Continent of large marsupial ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"ON THE EXTINCT marsupial ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA. The following is an abstract of
a lecture recently delivered by Professor Owen, at the Government School of ..."
5. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1900)
"If this view is correct, the pedigree of the cat descends through marsupial
ancestors to the most generalized placental (or ..."
6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"THE MYOLOGY OF THE HIND LIMB OF THE marsupial MOLE ... nature of the relationships
existing between the marsupial Mole and other more or less allied forms. ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Of or pertaining to a marsupium : as, marsupial bones. — 3. Provided with a marsupium
... marsupial trog. See TT M. A member of the order marsupialia ..."
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