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Definition of Metatherian
1. Noun. Primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas.
Definition of Metatherian
1. Adjective. Belonging or pertaining to the infraclass Metatheria of marsupials. ¹
2. Noun. A member of the infraclass Metatheria. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metatherian
Literary usage of Metatherian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arboreal Man by Frederic Wood Jones (1916)
"There are metatherian convergent mimics of Carnivora, Rodentia, Insectivora, and
of most other Eutherian orders, but there is no metatherian convergent ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... and Eutheria. metatherian (met-a-the'ri-an),«. and MI a. ... or having their
characters: as, a metatherian mammal; the metatherian type. II. n. ..."
3. On Mammalian Descent; the Hunterian Lectures for 1884: Being Nine Lectures by William Kitchen Parker, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1885)
"In the next group I have to treat of, the Insectivora, I shall • show reason to
believe that these lingered, in many cases for a time, in the metatherian ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"The metatherian mammals (multituberculates and marsupials), a minor but considerable
element in the Paleocene faunas, are of distinctly Mesozoic aspect and ..."
5. The Lancet (1898)
"... and the attainment of the critical phase to be fairly constant and he defines
it as "that period of time which n any given species of metatherian or ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"That there was such a group ancestral to both metatherian and eutherian mammals
is, I believe, reasonably certain. The evidence for it is the close ..."
7. The Contemporary Review (1885)
"He contends that if they did pass through a metatherian (or marsupial) stage,
they did not utilize it, but ran through it in an abbreviated prenatal stage. ..."
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