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• The pouched metatherians, the progenitors of marsupials, used to be common all over North America.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 102. From the entry metatherian
• Pademelons are small kangaroo-like marsupials that prefer solitary nocturnal life in the rainforest.2008, Barbara A. Holzman, Tropical Forest Biomes, page 122. From the entry pademelon
• It's a whodunit involving the woylie, the marsupial poster-child for recovery programs involving endangered animals.2007, The Bulletin, numbers 6559-6566, page 27. From the entry woylie
• This alternative name is an apt description of these small marsupials.1996, Rees Barrett, Peter Dent, Place, Patter and Process, page 89. From the entry woylie
• The first Australians, I reflected, will have known real monsters such as the Thylacaleo, or ‘marsupial lion’.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 225. From the entry marsupial lion
• Like other Australian marsupial taxa, wombats appear particularly susceptible to toxoplasmosis due to exposure to the coccidian parasite Toxoplasma gondii.2008, Larry Vogelnest, Rupert Woods, editors, Medicine of Australian Mammals, unnumbered page. From the entry toxoplasmosis
• The most specialized fossorial mammals (moles, marsupial mole) are subterranean, seeking food and shelter underground and rarely coming to the surface.2006, Kenneth D. Rose, The Beginning of the Age of Mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN. From the entry fossorial
• The Paucident Planigale is a robust marsupial.1983, Keith Davey, “Our Arid Environment: Animals of Australia's Desert Regions”, in Reed, page 92. From the entry paucident planigale
• The ancestors of Australia's varied marsupial family throve here.1981, Margaret Rau, Red Earth, Blue Sky: The Australian Outback, New York, N.Y: Crowell, page 5. From the entry wombatlike
• There were giant possums, huge marsupial lions, and kangaroos.1981, Margaret Rau, Red Earth, Blue Sky: The Australian Outback, New York, N.Y: Crowell, page 5. From the entry wombatlike
• You have dined extravagantly, tasted coffee that costs $50 for half a demitasseful (after all, it comes from the rear end of an Indonesian marsupial).2005 November 6, Lydia Martin, “Casa Conspicuous: Camera-happy tourists still strike poses on the steps of Versace’s South Beach mansion.…. From the entry demitasseful
• I am not familiar with any detailed studies of the ecology of nectarivores in the brushtongued parrots, meliphagids, and certain marsupial mammals in forests of Australia and New Guinea.2012, James R. Karr, “Chapter 22: Birds”, in H. Lieth, M.J.A. Werger, editors, Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystems: Biogeographical and…. From the entry meliphagid
• Reptiles are an important food source for a wide range of animals, including birds and small native marsupials such as the yellow-footed antechinus and the fat-tailed dunnart.2010, Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment, page 7. From the entry dunnart
• The Native Cat, or Tjilpa, is not a real cat but a small marsupial (Dasyurus geoffreyi) with outsize whiskers and a banded tail held vertically above its back.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 290. From the entry native cat
• Orbital orientation in the slow-moving phalangerid Phalanger maculatus is more primate-like than in other phalangerids, including Pseudocheirus lemuroides, one of the most acrobatic of arboreal marsupials.1972, Matt Cartmill, “4: Arboreal Adaptations and the Origin of Order Primates”, in Russell Tuttle, editor, The Functional and…. From the entry phalangerid
• They eat the low vegetation cautiously and with eyes alert, constantly on the lookout for borhyaenids: pouched predators and relatives of marsupials with hyena-like crushing jaws and grooved, ever-growing canines.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 63. From the entry borhyaenid

Meaning of marsupial

1. noun 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.
2. adjective Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
3. adjective Of or relating to a marsupium.

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How do you use marsupial in a sentence?

Marsupial is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial.”

What is a short sentence with marsupial?

“the marsupial bones”

What does marsupial mean?

Marsupial means 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.