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Rat vs Marsupial - What's the difference?

rat | marsupial |

As nouns the difference between rat and marsupial

is that rat is a medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus while 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.

As a verb rat

is to betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in, bewray.

As an adjective marsupial is

of or pertaining to a marsupial.

rat

English

(wikipedia rat)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus .
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  • (informal) A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
  • (informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house.
  • (informal) An informant or snitch.
  • (slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
  • Scab.
  • Vagina.
  • A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
    • Synonyms
    * (person known for betrayal) traitor (see for more synonyms ) * (informer) stool pigeon
    Derived terms
    * black rat * brown rat * desert rat * give a rat's ass * * like rats from a sinking ship * love rat * mall rat * ratface * ratfink * ratter * rat race * rattail * ratty * rat's nest * rat-trap * ring rat * smell a rat * gym rat
    See also
    * mouse * rodent

    Verb

    (ratt)
  • To betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in, bewray.
    • He ratted on his coworker.
    He is going to rat us out!
  • To kill rats.
    • Synonyms
    * (to betray someone to an authority) tell on, to finger or "put the finger on", bewray

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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