Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pouched or marsupiate: an epithet formerly used to note the marsupials, as purse-bearing animals, translating Scaliger's phrase Animalia crumentata.

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Examples

  • First it was the purple, purse-bearing Teletubbie.

    fun with politics alladinsane 2005

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