Marsupial
WordNet
adjective
(1) Of or relating to the marsupials
"Marsupial animals"
noun
(2) Mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Latin marsupium, marsuppium, “pouch, purse”, from Greek μαρσίππιον (marsippion; variously spelled), diminutive of μάρσιππος “bag, pouch” + -al.
Noun
- Any mammal of which the female typically has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala.
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
- 1892, The American naturalist, page 125:
- Showing that this animal is marsupial, consists of the following characters.
- 1952, The Motor, page 520:
- It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial.
- 2002, Fiction Fix: First Injection, page 58:
- But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial, where the kangaroo lives.
- 1892, The American naturalist, page 125: