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marsupials

Syllables: mar·su·pialzUK/mɑːˈsuː.pi.əlz/US/mɑɹˈsu.pi.əlz/

marsupials is the plural of marsupial.

Meaning of marsupial

Noun

marsupial (plural marsupials)

  1. A mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears the young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.

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Questions about marsupials

What is marsupials the plural of?
Marsupials is the plural of marsupial.
How do you pronounce marsupials?
Marsupials is pronounced /mɑːˈsuː.pi.əlz/ (UK).

Words near marsupials in the dictionary

  1. marsupialized
  2. marsupializes
  3. marsupializing
  4. marsupialoid
  5. marsupialoids
  6. marsupials
  7. marsupian
  8. marsupians
  9. marsupiate
  10. marsupiates
  11. marsupicarnivore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marsupials (page history and authors); marsupial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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