Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
marsupial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Related to or resembling the marsupials; furnished with a pouch for the young, as the marsupials, and also some fishes and Crustacea.
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- noun obsolete
marsupial
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Examples
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A marsupiate sea - monster is horribly unorthodox; and the dragon, too, has doubtless been made a monster of, but most unjustly: his legs have been patched on by crocodile-slaying crusaders, while his wings -- where did they come from?
Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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