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Pouched vs Marsupial - What's the difference?

pouched | marsupial |

As adjectives the difference between pouched and marsupial

is that pouched is having a pouch or pouches while marsupial is of or pertaining to a marsupial.

As a verb pouched

is (pouch).

As a noun 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.

pouched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pouch)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a pouch or pouches.

    • Derived terms

    * pouched badger * pouched dog * pouched frog * pouched gopher * pouched mouse * pouched rat * pouched squirrel

    marsupial

    English

    (wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * Marsupialia * marsupialoid * marsupium

    See also

    *

    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