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Marsupial adj.

(Zool.) Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.

(Anat. & Zool.) Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones.

Marsupial frog. (Zool.) See Nototrema.

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Etymology of 'Marsupial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Marsupial" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the Opossums and Kangaroos, exhibits a still more definite advance in the same direction. The cerebral hemispheres have now so much increased in size as, more or less, to hide the representatives of the optic lobes, which remain comparatively small, so that the brain of a Marsupial is extremely different from that of a Bird, Reptile, or Fish. A step higher in the scale, among the placental Mammals, the structure of the brain acquires a vast modification—not that it appears much altered externally, in a Rat or in a Rabbit, ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... species of animals, but exists in many, from the very lowest to the highest. The habit of feigning death has introduced a figure of speech in the English language, and has done much to magnify and perpetuate the fame of the only marsupial found outside of Australasia and the Malayan Archipelago. "Playing 'possum" is now a synonym for certain kinds of deception. Man himself has known this to be an efficacious stratagem on many occasions. I have only to recall the numerous instances ...

— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir

Words linked to "Marsupial" : bandicoot, Notoryctus typhlops, phalanger, dasyurid marsupial, dasyurid, marsupial mole, opossum, Marsupialia, pouched mammal, possum, marsupial mouse, pouched mole, metatherian, order Marsupialia, marsupial rat, kangaroo