marsupials
- plural of marsupial.
Example Sentences
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In fact, some marsupials lose the Y early in development, and in mammals the chromosome has been shrinking for about 150 million years.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026
Nor the “bizarrely specialized” family of carnivorous marsupials, Malleodectidae, which used their massive ball peen-like third premolars to crush snails.
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025
"They show the world that long before Australia became the land of pouched mammals, marsupials, this was a land of furry egg-layers - monotremes," Ms Smith says.
From BBC • May 27, 2024
Several types of fish and even some marsupials can also sense electric fields by other mechanisms.
From Science Magazine • May 20, 2024
She turned around to find her crisp-knickered daughter communing with cement marsupials.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
