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eastern opossums

eastern opossums is the plural of eastern opossum.

Meaning of eastern opossum

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

Questions about eastern opossums

What is eastern opossums the plural of?
Eastern opossums is the plural of eastern opossum.

Words near eastern opossums in the dictionary

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

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