marsupial

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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 Mammal Hall splits off into placental, marsupial, and monotreme mammal rooms, for example.) —  Omni: January 1995
  • The man of science clings to his object, as the marsupial embryo to its teat, until he has filled himself as full as he can hold; the poet takes a sip of his dew-drop, throws his head up like a chick, rolls his eyes around in contemplation of the heavens above him and the universe in general, and never thinks of asking a Linnaean question as to the flower that furnished him his dew-drop. —  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • (100 MYA), but after the marsupial-placental split (150 MYA). —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Triangles and rectangles represent gene clusters and lost genes, respectively; dashed and dotted lines represent the marsupial-placental and intra-Boreoeutheria divergences, respectively. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Bearded dragons, scrub pythons, box jellyfish and everyone's favorite marsupial, the red kangaroo, dominated the Outback-themed presentation. —  News for InsideNova.com
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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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