marsupial

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.

As an adjective marsupial

is of or pertaining to a marsupial.

As a proper noun phascogale is

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As nouns the difference between marsupial and bettong

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 bettong is any marsupial of the genus Bettongia, closely related to kangaroos.

As an adjective marsupial

is of or pertaining to a marsupial.

As nouns the difference between marsupial and oolacunta

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 oolacunta is an extinct marsupial, the desert rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), that lived in a sand-ridge and gibber-plain habitat in south-western Queensland and north-eastern Australia.

As an adjective marsupial

is of or pertaining to a marsupial.

As nouns the difference between marsupial and marsupiate

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 marsupiate is (obsolete) marsupial.

As an adjective marsupial

is of or pertaining to a marsupial.

As nouns the difference between marsupial and marsupian

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 marsupian is (obsolete) marsupial.

As an adjective marsupial

is of or pertaining to a marsupial.

As nouns the difference between marsupial and therian

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 therian is any member of the taxonomic subclass theria ; the placental and marsupial mammals.

As adjectives the difference between marsupial and therian

is that marsupial is of or pertaining to a marsupial while therian is of or pertaining to the taxonomic subclass theria .