mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
<noun.animal> [ adj ]
of or relating to the marsupials
<adj.pert> marsupial animals
Marsupial \Mar*su"pi*al\ (m[aum]r*s[=u]"p[i^]*al), a. [Cf. F. marsupial.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.
2. (Anat. & Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones.
{Marsupial frog}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Nototrema}.
marsupial \mar*su"pi*al\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Marsupialia.
He quickly added that they're just a joke and don't really contain road-killed marsupial meat.
The tiger, the world's largest carnivorous marsupial, developed a taste for sheep introduced by the white settlers who came to the island in 1803.
"We wrote a story that said the man intentionally ran over a marsupial.
Then there's the marsupial frog, a rain-forest dweller whose hatchlings wriggle onto their father's flanks and push their way into pockets that have formed there to complete their development.