Marsupial vs Eutherian - What's the difference?
marsupial | eutherian |
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.
As nouns the difference between marsupial and eutherian
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 eutherian is a eutherian animal.As adjectives the difference between marsupial and eutherian
is that marsupial is of or pertaining to a marsupial while eutherian is belonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals like humans and rodents than to marsupials.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