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Marsupial   /mɑrsˈupiəl/   Listen
Marsupial

noun
1.
Mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried.  Synonym: pouched mammal.



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"Marsupial" Quotes from Famous Books



... to take care of themselves. Of the large kangaroo there are eight species, and the largest of them are fully six feet in height and weigh one hundred and fifty pounds or more. Geologists say that at one time there were, in Australia, marsupial animals closely resembling the kangaroo but equaling the rhinoceros in size. They must have been formidable fellows ...
— The Land of the Kangaroo - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent • Thomas Wallace Knox



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



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