marsupial

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Pointing to the marsupial, it was said that one of the earliest European settlers in Australia asked a native to tell him the name of this peculiar animal.

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  1. noun Any of various nonplacental mammals of the order Marsupialia, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.
  2. adjective Of or belonging to the order Marsupialia.
  3. adjective Of or relating to a marsupium.

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  • The marsupial, the seal, the emu, and the bag-billed bird that nature built in one of her whimsical moods, had held unchallenged possession for tens of thousands of years, probably never visited by any ships, nor even preyed upon by blacks. —  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
  • Pointing to the marsupial, it was said that one of the earliest European settlers in Australia asked a native to tell him the name of this peculiar animal. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4
  • It was only interesting that the Lithians were bipedal, evolved from reptiles, with marsupial-like pouches and pteropsid circulatory systems. —  A Case Of Conscience
  • Eventually, they become true adults, a very advanced type of reptile, marsupial, bipedal, homeostatic -- and highly intelligent. —  A Case Of Conscience
  • The kangaroo is a marsupial, as we all know, has a pouch. —  CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005
 

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Words tagged marsupial

amphithere · bilby · diprotodon · thylacothere · thylacoleo · zygomaturus · zygomaturine · palorchestes · Dasyuroides

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  1. From marsupium.

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  1. from New Latin marsupialis, from Latin marsupium, a pouch: see marsupium.
 

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/mɑrˈsjupiəl/
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