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eastern opossum

eastern opossum noun: cuscus.

Noun

eastern opossum (plural eastern opossums)

  1. (obsolete) cuscus
    • Without eggs, cocoa-nuts, or plantains, we had very short commons, and the boisterous weather being unpropitious for fishing, we had to live on what few eatable birds we could shoot, with an occasional cuscus, or eastern opossum, the only quadruped, except pigs, inhabiting the island.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 357

Forms of eastern opossum

pluraleastern opossums

Questions about eastern opossum

What does eastern opossum mean?
Eastern opossum means cuscus.
What part of speech is eastern opossum?
Eastern opossum is a noun.
What is the plural of eastern opossum?
The plural of eastern opossum is eastern opossums.

Words near eastern opossum in the dictionary

  1. Eastern Nagari
  2. Eastern Nilotic
  3. Eastern Norway
  4. eastern olivaceous warbler
  5. eastern olivaceous warblers
  6. eastern opossum
  7. eastern opossums
  8. eastern Orphean warbler
  9. eastern Orphean warblers
  10. Eastern Orthodox
  11. Eastern Orthodox Church

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