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Marsupial vs Dunnart - What's the difference?

marsupial | dunnart |

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

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

    See also

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    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

    dunnart

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.
  • * 2005 , C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials , 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).
  • * 2009 , (editor), ''The Best Australian Essays 2009 , 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.
  • * 2010 , Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment , page 7,
  • 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 .