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Marsupial

adjective

Of or relating to the marsupials.

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... duck-billed Platypus and the Opossums and Kangaroos, exhibits a still more definite advance in the same direction. The cerebral hemispheres have now so much increased in size as, more or less, to hide the representatives of the optic lobes, which remain comparatively small, so that the brain of a Marsupial is extremely different from that of a Bird, Reptile, or Fish. A step higher in the scale, among the placental Mammals, the structure of the brain acquires a vast modification—not that it appears much altered externally, in a Rat or in a Rabbit, from what it is in a Marsupial—nor that the proportions ...

— On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals • Thomas H. Huxley

... accidentally hypertrophied cutaneous gland of its mother? And even if one was so, what chance was there of the perpetuation of such a variation?" But the case is not here put fairly. It is admitted by most evolutionists that mammals are descended from a marsupial form; and if so, the mammary glands will have been at first developed within the marsupial sack. In the case of the fish (Hippocampus) the eggs are hatched, and the young are reared for a time, within a sack of this nature; and an American naturalist, Mr. Lockwood, believes from what ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

Words linked to "Marsupial" : kangaroo, opossum rat, wombat, opossum, pouched mole, dasyurid, marsupium, possum, phalanger, metatherian, bandicoot, Notoryctus typhlops