Synonyms:
marsupial
Meaning: of or relating to the marsupials; "marsupial animals"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
marsupial, pouched_mammal
Meaning: mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
Usage examples
The following remarks of Professor Owen, in respect to Australia are very suggestive:--"All the marsupial animals--and it is one of their curious peculiarities--are nocturnal.
With regard to most of the other Australian forms of marsupial animals, they are most strictly nocturnal; so that, if a traveller were not aware of that peculiarity, he might fancy himself traversing a country destitute of the mammalian grade of animal life.