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plural marsupials
Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums. examples
comparative more marsupial, superlative most marsupial
Of or pertaining to a marsupial. quotations examples
Showing that this animal is marsupial, consists of the following characters.
1892, The American naturalist, page 125
It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial.
1952, The Motor, page 520
But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial, where the kangaroo lives.
2002, Fiction Fix: First Injection, page 58
(anatomy) Of or relating to a marsupium. examples