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marsupial mice

marsupial mice is the plural of marsupial mouse.

Meaning of marsupial mouse

Noun

marsupial mouse (plural marsupial mice)

  1. (Australia) Any of several small carnivorous marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, especially in the genera Sminthopsis and Antechinus.
    • The Surgeon cut me short with a fierce uplift of his beetle brow—and for a dreadful moment I feared two of the many marsupial mice in my cell had leapt up onto his face […].2011, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 137

Questions about marsupial mice

What is marsupial mice the plural of?
Marsupial mice is the plural of marsupial mouse.

Words near marsupial mice in the dictionary

  1. marsupial bones
  2. marsupial frog
  3. marsupial frogs
  4. marsupial lion
  5. marsupial lions
  6. marsupial mice
  7. marsupial mole
  8. marsupial moles
  9. marsupial mouse
  10. marsupialian
  11. marsupialians

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