marmose

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  1. One of several small South American opossums which have the pouch rudimentary and carry the young on the back. Such are Didelphys dorsigera of Surinam, of the size of a rat, the still smaller D. murina, and other species.

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  1. from French marmose (Buffon); origin not ascertained; no apparently connection with marmoset.
 

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