Marsupial vs Dunnart - What's the difference?
marsupial | dunnart |
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 species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.
* 2005 , C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials ,
* 2009 , (editor), ''The Best Australian Essays 2009 ,
* 2010 , Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment ,
As nouns the difference between marsupial and dunnart
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 dunnart is any species of the genus sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.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
dunnart
English
(wikipedia dunnart)Noun
(en noun)page 158,
- After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts , as breeding began.
- The food of the fat-tailed dunnart consists almost entirely of small arthropods, with a preference for spiders, termites, ants, cockroaches and weevils (Morton et al 1983).
page 18,
- During the original AWC[Australian Wildlife Conservancy] survey, Alexander Baynes identified, in a single hollow salmon gum, 283 jaws of half-a-dozen native mammal species, mostly dunnarts , many of which were recovered from owl pellets.
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- 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 .