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metatherian

metatherian adjective: belonging or pertaining to the infraclass Metatheria of marsupials.

Adjective

metatherian (comparative more metatherian, superlative most metatherian)

  1. Belonging or pertaining to the infraclass Metatheria of marsupials.

Noun

metatherian (plural metatherians)

  1. A member of the infraclass Metatheria.
    • The pouched metatherians, the progenitors of marsupials, used to be common all over North America.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 102

Forms of metatherian

Adjective
comparativemore metatherian
superlativemost metatherian
Noun
pluralmetatherians

Origin of metatherian

Metatheria + -an

Questions about metatherian

What does metatherian mean?
Metatherian means belonging or pertaining to the infraclass Metatheria of marsupials.
What part of speech is metatherian?
Metatherian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near metatherian in the dictionary

  1. metatheorized
  2. metatheorizes
  3. metatheorizing
  4. metatheory
  5. metatherial
  6. metatherian
  7. metatherians
  8. metathesauri
  9. metathesaurus
  10. metathesauruses
  11. metatheses

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