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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having the character of a bag, pouch, or marsupium; marsupiate.
  2. Of or pertaining to a marsupium: as, marsupial bones.
  3. Provided with a marsupium; specifically, pertaining to the Marsupialia, or having their characters.
  4. n. A member of the order Marsupialia; any implacental didelphian mammal. Also called marsupiate.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala, or else pouchless members of the Marsupialia like the shrew opposum.
  2. adj. Of or pertaining to a marsupial.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.
  2. adj. (Anat. & Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a marsupium.
  3. n. (Zoöl.) One of the Marsupialia.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to the marsupials
  2. n. mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried

Etymologies

  1. From Latin marsupium, marsuppium ("pouch, purse"), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsupion) or μαρσύππιον (marsuppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsippion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (marsippos, "bag, pouch"); with English -al. (Wiktionary)
  2. From marsupium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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hypernyms (1)

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  1. metatherian

hyponyms (12)

Words that are more specific

  1. marsupial mole
  2. opossum
  1. dasyurid marsupial
  2. opossum rat
  1. possum
  2. phalanger
  1. bandicoot
  2. notoryctus typhlops
  1. kangaroo
  2. wombat
  1. pouched mole
  2. dasyurid

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. egg-laying
  2. land-dwelling
  3. insectivorous
  4. herbivorous
  1. placental
  2. arboreal
  3. Tasmanian
  4. possum
  1. pelagic
  2. warm-blooded
  3. star-nosed
  4. multicellular
  1. dumbass
  2. round-mouthed
  3. air-breathing
  4. mammalian
  1. transgenic
  2. four-legged
  3. viviparous
  4. purblind
  1. Pygmy
  2. pre-implantation

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. kangaroo
  2. diprotodon
  3. thylacothere
  4. cuscus
  5. petaurist
  6. dasyure
  7. wombat
  8. bandicoot
  9. Tasmanian devil
  10. Tasmanian tiger
  11. Tasmanian wolf
  12. thylacine
  13. thylacinus cynocephalus
  14. ursine dasyure
  15. pouched mole
  16. sarcophilus hariisi
  17. marsupial mole
  18. myrmecobius fasciatus
  19. notoryctus typhlops
  20. numbat
  21. opossum
  22. possum
  23. ant-eater
  24. banded anteater
  1. phalanger
  2. notoryctidæ
  3. marsupialian
  4. marsupian
  5. marsupiate
  6. marsupiated
  7. epipubic
  8. pedimana
  9. didelphid
  10. didelphys
  11. koala
  12. garzonidæ
  13. gonocyst
  14. gonœcium
  15. marsupialize
  16. microbiotheriidæ
  17. microlestes
  18. nursing-pouch
  19. paurodontidæ
  20. rock-wallaby
  21. tiger cat
  22. tait
  23. bettong
  24. mastotheca
  1. opossum-mouse
  2. philander
  3. pouch-bone
  4. quoll
  5. root-eater
  6. sarcophagan
  7. sarcophagous
  8. squirrel-phalanger
  9. cimolestidæ
  10. Dhs10,000
  11. Dune-drive
  12. Ariel
  13. botanophaga
  14. carpophaga
  15. carpophagous
  16. didelph
  17. dryolestidæ
  18. semioviparous
  19. flying mouse
  20. pouched
  21. pantotheria
  22. phascolarctos cinereus
  23. subclass pantotheria
  24. pocket
  1. genus notoryctus
  2. kangaroo bear
  3. koala bear
  4. native bear
  5. notoryctus
  6. pouch
  7. native rabbit
  8. nototrema
  9. ooticoid
  10. pedimane
  11. perameles
  12. phalangist
  13. phascolome
  14. tapoa tafa
  15. vulpine phalangist
  16. zebra wolf
  17. acrobates
  18. bear
  19. chirogidæ
  20. chironectes
  21. dasyuridæ
  22. didelphia
  23. didelphyidæ
  24. diprotodont
  1. entomophaga
  2. flying phalanger
  3. galestes
  4. implacental
  5. kangaroo rat
  6. Lagorchestes
  7. macropodidæ
  8. marsupial
  9. marten
  10. oötocoid
  11. peramelidæ
  12. peroneotibial
  13. phalangistidæ
  14. phascogale
  15. phascolomyidæ
  16. polymastodontidæ
  17. polyprotodont
  18. rat
  19. scleroskeleton
  20. borhyænidæ
  21. ludian
  22. mole-marsupial
  23. stagodontidæ
  24. tarsiped
  1. thylacinus
  2. zebra-wolf

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Words tagged ‘marsupial’

  1. Dasyuroides
  2. amphithere
  3. bilby
  1. cuscus
  2. diprotodon
  3. koala
  1. macropodid
  2. palorchestes
  3. petaurid
  1. petaurist
  2. phalangerid
  3. pseudocheirid
  1. thylacoleo
  2. thylacothere
  3. wombat
  1. zygomaturine
  2. zygomaturus

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  • PossibleUnderscore See monotreme. Jul 17, 2009

  • reesetee John: Well, now that you mention it, I do feel that way when I'm working (in NJ).... Jul 16, 2009

  • chained_bear STAN-dards!! :) Jul 16, 2009

  • plethora No amount of House, or even Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, or anything else I've seen him in will ever stop this sketch from being the first thing I think of when Hugh's name is mentioned. Jul 16, 2009

  • john Fire away at Jerseyland. It's more like my penitentiary. Jul 16, 2009

  • reesetee Saayyy, watch what you say about John's adopted state. ;-)

    Isn't House's backstory that he's traveled all over creation, both as a child and later in his studies? Ahh, what do I know....

    *thinking about the American "R" and now wondering whether all pirates are actually Americans* Jul 15, 2009

  • chained_bear It has a touch of the broad vowel flatness associated with rural areas (Midwest?), but the rudeness is definitely Joisey. :) Wait... didn't the character go to Johns Hopkins? So perhaps he's not originally from Jersey/NY...? (Not that one's choice of medical school is necessarily the closest one. Just sayin'.)

    It's still a dang good accent, even if it is generic. I don't think, during the pounding of several episodes a night (borrowed the DVDs from a friend... ahem...) that I've caught any British-sounding articulations more than, maybe, two or three times. That's pretty remarkable, considering that hearing a Brit (or Aussie) try to pronounce an American "R" sound (as in "arrrpeggio" or "butter" or better yet, "dork") makes me fall off my chair laughing.

    For an example of the opposite extreme, see Kevin Costner's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves." Or at least, the first third of it, before he fired his dialect coach and just freakin' gave up trying to sound English... the flaming git. Jul 15, 2009

  • reesetee I don't watch the show much--I've only seen a couple of episodes--but he definitely does not have a typical New Jersey or NY accent (the show takes place in/around Princeton, NJ). It does sound rather generic to me. Jul 15, 2009

  • yarb Laurie's House accent still doesn't sound right to me. What part of the States is House supposed to be from? Is it just a generic American accent? Where would you guys place it? I think because I was used to his native accent, the US one will always seem faux to me.

    Maruspial is an inspired choice of favourite word. Jul 15, 2009

  • reesetee Then it's probably me, since I've never seen either. But you're right about marsupial. :-) Jul 15, 2009

  • chained_bear I'm just getting used to his House accent, actually. I keep thinking of him in Blackadder III (If at work, use headphones before clicking) and IV.

    I will say that marsupial sounds much less hilarious and more dignified when spoken with a British accent. Jul 15, 2009

  • reesetee Doesn't it always amaze you that his real-life accent is decidedly not like his House accent? Jul 15, 2009

  • chained_bear Hee! Thanks for that link, telofy. Jul 15, 2009

  • Telofy Hugh Laurie's favorite word. Jul 15, 2009

  • sonofgroucho Isn't it surprising that when I was the first person to list kangeroo 15 people had already listed marsupial? May 26, 2007

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