Marsupial vs Monkey - What's the difference?
marsupial | monkey |
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 member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.
(label) A mischievous child.
Five hundred pounds sterling.
(label) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
(label) A person with minimal intelligence and/or (bad) looks.
(label) A face card.
(label) A menial employee who does a repetitive job.
The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
(label) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XII
As nouns the difference between marsupial and monkey
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 monkey is any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.As an adjective marsupial
is of or pertaining to a marsupial.As a verb monkey is
to meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.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
monkey
English
(wikipedia monkey)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (menial employee) phone monkey, code monkey * brass monkey * capuchin monkey * grease monkey * green monkey * green monkey disease * monkey barge * monkey bars * monkey bike * monkey boot * monkey bread * monkey business * monkey dance * monkey drill * monkey-faced owl * monkey flip * monkey humping a football * monkey in the middle * monkey jacket * monkey motion * monkey nut * monkey orchid * monkey pole * monkey rum * monkey show * monkey spoon * monkey squirrel * monkey stove * Monkey Ward's * monkey orange * monkey pistol * monkey thorn * monkey wrench * not give a monkey'sVerb
- ''Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.
- “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps! Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come close to the original?”
