Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the Didelphia; especially, one of the Didelphyidœ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A marsupial animal.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Same as
didelphic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A member of
Didelphidae ; amarsupial animal .
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The first is the so-called Monito del Monte or Colocolo Dromiciops australis, described in 1894 and classified as a didelphid.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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