marsupial

noun
/mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/UK/mɑɹˈsu.pi.əl/US

Etymology

From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al.

  1. derived from μαρσύπιον

Definitions

  1. A mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in…

    A mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears the young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.

  2. Of or pertaining to a marsupial.

    • 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.
  3. Of or relating to a marsupium.

    • the marsupial bones

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at marsupial. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at marsupial. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at marsupial

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA