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UK
/mɑːsˈuːpɪəl/
]
[ US /mɑɹˈsupiəɫ/ ]
[ US /mɑɹˈsupiəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to the marsupials
marsupial animals
How To Use marsupial In A Sentence
- So the extension of the term ‘marsupial’ is the set of all marsupials: kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and so on.
- The Tasmanian Devil is the world's largest marsupial predator but its very survival is at stake as an horrific cancer threatens up to 90% of its population.
- Foxes as predators prey on lambs and chickens and kill native small marsupials and rodents.
- monotremes and marsupials are aplacental mammals
- The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus, VU) is a marsupial 'anteater' that is the only member of its entire family. Biological diversity in Southwest Australia
- This was catastrophic for some of the local animals, especially the big marsupial carnivores.
- However, the many lineages of gliding animals today, including a host of lizards, squirrels, marsupials, and colugos show no signs of turning into flappers anytime soon.
- Thylacinus macknessi, a specialised thylacinid (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
- We discuss possible explanations for reduced female recombination in marsupials as a consequence of the metatherian characteristic of determinate paternal X chromosome inactivation.
- And someone let this dude direct The Howling III: The Marsupials. The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)
