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Marsupial vs Antechinus - What's the difference?

marsupial | antechinus |

As a noun marsupial

is a mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala, or else pouchless members of the marsupialia like the shrew opposum.

As an adjective marsupial

is of or pertaining to a marsupial.

As a proper noun antechinus is

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marsupial

English

(wikipedia marsupial)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala, or else pouchless members of the Marsupialia like the shrew opposum.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * marsupial bone * marsupial frog * marsupial lion * marsupial mouse

    Related terms

    * Marsupialia * marsupialoid * marsupium

    See also

    *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
  • * 1892 , The American naturalist? , page 125:
    • Showing that this animal is marsupial , consists of the following characters.
  • * 1952 , The Motor? , page 520:
    • It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial .
  • * 2002 , Fiction Fix: First Injection , page 58:
    • But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial , where the kangaroo lives.
  • (anatomy) Of or relating to a marsupium.
    • the marsupial bones

    antechinus

    English

    (wikipedia antechinus)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any species of the genus Antechinus of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble shrews.
  • * 1970 , W. D. L. Ride, Ella Fry, A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia , page 116,
    • Smaller than the wambengers, the antechinuses are secretive and are seldom seen by people unless they are caught and brought into houses by domestic cats.
  • * 1998 , Deirdre Slattery, The Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks , page 67,
    • I thought it was my fault until I consulted the experts, and found that antechinus' die naturally at this time of the year.' Antechinus eat beetles, spiders and cockroaches, which they find in decaying litter and topsoil in their habitat of dense ground cover.
  • * 2007 , Stephen Jackson, Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive Management , unnumbered page,
    • If held as a colony outside the breeding season, antechinus show relatively little aggression while still forming a linear hierarchy.

    Derived terms

    * agile antechinus ((taxlink)) * Atherton antechinus ((taxlink)) * brown antechinus ((taxlink)) * buff-footed antechinus ((taxlink)) * cinnamon antechinus ((taxlink)) * dusky antechinus ((taxlink)) * fawn antechinus ((taxlink)) * subtropical antechinus ((taxlink)) * Swainson's artechinus (Antechinus swainsonii ) * swamp antechinus ((taxlink)) * tropical antechinus ((taxlink)) * yellow-footed antechinus ((taxlink))