marsupial
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The kangaroo is a marsupial, as we all know, has a pouch.
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- noun Any of various nonplacental mammals of the order Marsupialia, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.
- adjective Of or belonging to the order Marsupialia.
- 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
- They held each other's stare until Possum, so nicknamed no doubt because he bore an unfortunate resemblance to the marsupial, asked him a direct question. — Where There's Smoke
- Cadmann adjusted his binoculars, and watched as a cloud of Avalon insects fed on the corpse of some kind of marsupial. — Beowulf's Children
- It was only interesting that the Lithians were bipedal, evolved from reptiles, with marsupial-like pouches and pteropsid circulatory systems. — A Case Of Conscience
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The kangaroo is a marsupial, as we all know, has a pouch.
— CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005
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- From marsupium.
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/ (mär-so͞oˈpē-əl)/
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