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Meaning of "marsupial" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MARSUPIAL

See marsupium.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MARSUPIAL

marsupial  [mɑːˈsjuːpɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MARSUPIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Marsupial can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MARSUPIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

marsupial

Marsupial

Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals living primarily in Australasia and the New World. A distinctive characteristic, common to most species, is that the young are carried in a pouch. Well-known marsupials include kangaroos, wallabies, the koala, possums, opossums, wombats and the Tasmanian devil. Less well-known species of marsupials include the numbat, bandicoots, bettongs, the bilby, quolls, and the quokka. Marsupials represent the clade originating with the last common ancestor of extant metatherians. Like other mammals in the Metatheria, they are characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young, often residing in a pouch with the mother for a certain time after birth. Close to 70% of the 334 extant species occur in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands, with the remaining 100 found in the Americas, primarily in South America, but with 13 in Central America, and one in North America north of Mexico.

Definition of marsupial in the English dictionary

The first definition of marsupial in the dictionary is any mammal of the order Marsupialia, in which the young are born in an immature state and continue development in the marsupium. The order occurs mainly in Australia and South and Central America and includes the opossums, bandicoots, koala, wombats, and kangaroos. Other definition of marsupial is of, relating to, or belonging to the Marsupialia. Marsupial is also of or relating to a marsupium.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MARSUPIAL


clypeal
ˈklɪpɪəl
dial
ˈdaɪəl
editorial
ˌɛdɪˈtɔːrɪəl
equatorial
ˌɛkwəˈtɔːrɪəl
Gabriel
ˈɡeɪbrɪəl
ideal
aɪˈdɪəl
imperial
ɪmˈpɪərɪəl
industrial
ɪnˈdʌstrɪəl
Israel
ˈɪzreɪəl
material
məˈtɪərɪəl
memorial
mɪˈmɔːrɪəl
participial
ˌpɑːtɪˈsɪpɪəl
pericarpial
ˌperɪˈkɑːpɪəl
principial
prɪnˈsɪpɪəl
real
ˈrɪəl
royal
ˈrɔɪəl
serial
ˈsɪərɪəl
trial
ˈtraɪəl
troupial
ˈtruːpɪəl
tutorial
tjuːˈtɔːrɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MARSUPIAL

marshland
marshlander
marshlike
marshlocks
marshmallow
marshmallowy
marshwort
marshy
Marsilius of Padua
marsipobranch
marsport
marsquake
Marston
Marston Moor
marsupia
marsupial mole
marsupial mouse
marsupialian
marsupian
marsupium

WORDS THAT END LIKE MARSUPIAL

artificial
colonial
commercial
crucial
especial
espial
essential
facial
financial
initial
interracial
official
partial
pial
potential
residential
social
special
spial
substantial

Synonyms and antonyms of marsupial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «marsupial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MARSUPIAL

Find out the translation of marsupial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of marsupial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «marsupial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

有袋动物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

marsupial
570 millions of speakers

English

marsupial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

धानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جرابي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сумчатый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

marsupial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উপজঠরী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

marsupial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Marsupial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Beuteltier
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

有袋類
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유대류
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Marsupial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có mang cái túi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பையுள்ள
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रागीट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

keseli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

marsupiale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

torbacz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сумчастий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

marsupial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαρσιποφόρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

buideldier
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pungdjur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pungdyr
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of marsupial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MARSUPIAL»

The term «marsupial» is regularly used and occupies the 80.310 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MARSUPIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «marsupial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «marsupial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about marsupial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MARSUPIAL»

Discover the use of marsupial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to marsupial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Marsupial Nutrition
A comprehensive description of the food resources, digestive systems and metabolisms of marsupials, first published in 1999.
Ian D. Hume, 1999
2
Marsupial Sue: with audio recording
Sue doesn't want to be a kangaroo!
John Lithgow, 2011
3
Marsupial: Our Mother for the Time Being
These are presented in different typefaces and genres of documents, and are interspersed with lots of White's gnarly and evocative dada-punk collages" - Erik Davis.
Derek White, 2008
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Marsupial Biology: Recent Research, New Perspectives
The book does not comprise papers of narrow focus read at the symposium, but chapters reviewing the knowledge in each key area, written to a book format.
Norman Saunders, Lyn Hinds, 1997
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Marsupial Genetics and Genomics
This volume recounts some of the history of research in this field and highlights the most recent advances in the many different areas of marsupial genetics and genomics research.
Janine E. Deakin, Paul D. Waters, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, 2010
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Life of Marsupials
In Life of Marsupials, one of the world's leading experts explores the biology and evolution of this unusual group - with their extraordinary diversity of forms around the world - in Australia, New Guinea and South America. -back cover.
C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, 2005
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The Marsupial Order
"Explores the habitats, life cycles, and other characteristics of organisms in the Marsupial Order"--Provided by publisher.
Rebecca Stefoff, 2007
8
Jolly Marsupial
And, as always, Jilly Cooper is a devastating, hilarious and sometimes moving chronicler of the minutiae of family life, with some fascinating sidelights and side-swipes at the middle-class educational rat race along the way.
Jilly Cooper, 2012
9
Marsupial reproduction: gametes, fertilization and early ...
Collection of papers from a satellite symposium of the Sixth International Theriological Congress held in Sydney in 1993.
CSIRO Staff, 1994
10
A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics
"This mechanistic world...has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry."--CAConrad
C. A. Conrad, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MARSUPIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term marsupial is used in the context of the following news items.
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Endangered marsupial caught in spotlight - PS News
Ranger with the NPWS, David Egan said he had been stunned to find clear images of the endangered marsupial on one of the Central Western NSW Reserve's ... «PS News, Jul 15»
2
Bid for Tasmanian devil cancer vaccine - Yahoo News UK
Tasmanian devils are the world's largest remaining marsupial carnivore. View Photo. Press Association - Tasmanian devils are the world's ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
3
Australia declares war on feral cats: Outdoors Oddities | syracuse.com
The numbat, also known as the banded anteater, marsupial anteater, or walpurti, is a marsupial found in Western Australia. Its diet consists ... «Syracuse.com, Jul 15»
4
Prince George: Birthday Boy's Top 10 Moments - Sky News
4) Presented with a cuddly toy bilby - a rabbit-like marsupial - at a Sydney zoo, the nine-month-old grabbed it with delight before flinging it on to ... «Sky News, Jul 15»
5
The Liverpool plains were a place of loss long before Shenhua's …
One of Australia's most widespread mammals in the past, found in every mainland state, these marsupial carnivores survive today only in ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Locations of Next 35 Bike Stations Announced - Urban Milwaukee
... St./N. Holton St.) – 2015 – City; Marsupial Bridge East (N. Water St./E. Pearson St.) – 2016 – City; Brady/Prospect (N. Prospect Ave./E. Brady ... «urbanmilwaukee, Jul 15»
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Exotic pets are Lodi shop's specialty - Business - NorthJersey.com
Averso also has what he described as a "super rare" striped possum, a larger South Pacific marsupial, about the size of a gray squirrel with ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
8
Rio worker rescues echidna having a bad day
It seems he has suffered some trauma to his eye and is under close observation by a wonderful marsupial coordinator. To the Rio employee ... «Gladstone Observer, Jul 15»
9
Kolo Toure has owned a dog for seven years and never touched it
Kolo Toure declined to cuddle a marsupial, however, an incident that didn't escape the notice of the local press, who quizzed him about it at a ... «Eurosport.com AU, Jul 15»
10
This Falsely Advertised Superhero Did Mostly Nothing While His …
That honor fell to his marsupial sidekick, a crime-smashing, Nazi-bashing, and wise-cracking kangaroo named Bingo! The saga commences as ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Marsupial [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/marsupial>. Apr 2024 ».
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