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Marsupials

Marsupial

1. (Science: zoology) Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the marsupialia.

2. (Science: anatomy) Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones. Marsupial frog.

(Science: zoology) see nototrema.

Origin: cf. F. Marsupial.

(Science: zoology) One of the marsupialia.


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