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Definition of Marsupialia
1. Noun. Coextensive with the subclass Metatheria.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Metatheria, Subclass Metatheria
Member holonyms: Marsupial, Pouched Mammal, Didelphidae, Family Didelphidae, Caenolestidae, Family Caenolestidae, Family Peramelidae, Peramelidae, Family Macropodidae, Macropodidae, Family Phalangeridae, Phalangeridae, Family Vombatidae, Vombatidae, Dasyuridae, Family Dasyuridae, Family Dasyurinae, Family Notoryctidae, Notoryctidae
Definition of Marsupialia
1. n. pl. A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.
Medical Definition of Marsupialia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsupialia
Literary usage of Marsupialia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"marsupialia, or Pouched Animals. By GR Waterhouse, Esq., Curator to the Zool.
Soc. Lond. THE eleventh volume of this valuable and deservedly popular work, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Among the marsupialia the Tasmania n devil (Sarcophilus) gives a very good idea
of a generalized mammalian brain, and shows a large development of the parts ..."
3. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"In this communication it was stated that the brains of the marsupialia differed
from those of all the Placental mammals in ..."
4. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"Suborder marsupialia DIPROTODONTIA. Incisors (-1 . The central pair of upper
incisors and the one pair of lower incisors large and cutting. ..."
5. First Steps in Scientific Knowledge: Complete in Seven Parts by Paul Bert (1887)
"Among marsupialia there are fash-eaters, insect-eaters, and grazing animals. ...
Only a few of the marsupialia group are found out of Australia : one of ..."
6. Natural History: A Manual of Zoölogy for Schools, Colleges and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"THE Order of marsupialia comprises animals whose special characteristic is that
their young are brought forth in an exceedingly premature state of ..."
7. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"General Remarks on the Distribution of marsupialia. We have here the most remarkable
case, of an extensive and highly varied order being confined to one ..."
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