Marsupial vs Bettong - What's the difference?
marsupial | bettong |
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.
Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
* 1892 , The American naturalist? , page 125:
* 1952 , The Motor? , page 520:
* 2002 , Fiction Fix: First Injection , page 58:
(anatomy) Of or relating to a marsupium.
Any marsupial of the genus Bettongia, closely related to kangaroos.
As nouns the difference between marsupial and bettong
is that 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 while bettong is any marsupial of the genus Bettongia, closely related to kangaroos.As an adjective marsupial
is of or pertaining to a marsupial.marsupial
English
(wikipedia marsupial)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* marsupial bone * marsupial frog * marsupial lion * marsupial mouseSee also
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Showing that this animal is marsupial , consists of the following characters.
- It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial .
- But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial , where the kangaroo lives.
- the marsupial bones
bettong
English
(wikipedia bettong)Noun
(en noun)- ''Bettongs rather resemble rats, having short noses, short, rounded ears, long hind feet and a naked muzzle tip