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US
/ˈpɑsəm/
]
[ UK /pˈɒsəm/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒsəm/ ]
NOUN
- nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America
- small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
How To Use possum In A Sentence
- Regin downshifted, tires squealing as she swerved to dodge a roadkill-bound possum. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
- He regained his balance and then retreated to his post beside the door, curling into himself like a wounded possum. NO BODY
- A farmer looking through the fields before harvesting his crop sees rabbits, opossums, mice, rats, birds, foxes, skunks and snakes.
- We've got tiny little radios that we can put on the honey possums now.
- After a coupla days down here in Melbooring this week, I suggest leaving the boardies behind and bring down the possum fur jacket… Cheeseburger Gothic » We’re thinking Longrain for Thursday in Melbourne.
- Land crabs, river crayfish, opossum, agouti, and fish are caught where available.
- As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed (at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums) at Idle's startling transformation into ol 'Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin 'and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals. Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah: Monty Python Strikes Again!
- Darn thing went clean through the now deceased possum and both sides of the waterer. Chicken Owner Targets Opossum, Shoots Own Leg
- Possum or pretend to sleep.
- But even then, Carey affirmed with a "howsomdever," and "nevertheless," that if they carried young, and especially a "'possum," (which has more young ones than most other beasts,) he thought they ought to be let alone until their appropriate time. Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
