marsupial

English

Etymology

From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑːˈsuːpi.əl/
• IPA^(key): /mɑɹˈsupi.əl/
• Hyphenation: mar‧su‧pial

The kangaroo is a marsupial.

Noun

marsupial (plural marsupials)

1. A mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala, or else pouchless members of the Marsupialia like the shrew opossum.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:marsupial

Derived terms

Derived terms

• marsupial bone
• marsupial frog

• marsupial lion
• marsupial mouse

Related terms

• Marsupialia
• marsupialoid
• marsupium

Translations

mammal of which the female typically has a pouch

• Arabic: جِرَابِيّ m (jirābiyy), جِرَاب m (jirāb)
• Armenian: պարկավոր (hy) (parkavor)
• Catalan: marsupial (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有袋動物／有袋动物 (yǒudài dòngwù), 有袋动物 (yǒudài dòngwù)

• Czech: vačnatec (cs) m
• Danish: pungdyr (da) n
• Dutch: buideldier (nl) n
• Esperanto: marsupiulo
• Finnish: pussieläin (fi)
• French: marsupial (fr) m
• Galician: marsupial m or f
• German: Beuteltier (de) n
• Hebrew: חיית כיס f
• Hungarian: erszényes (hu)
• Icelandic: pokadýr (is) n
• Ido: marsupialo (io)
• Italian: marsupiale (it) m
• Japanese: 有袋類 (ja) (ゆうたいるい, yūtairui)
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• Korean: 육아 낭이 (yuga nang'i)
• Latin: marsupial (la) n
• Lithuanian: sterblinis m
• Macedonian: торбар m (torbar)
• Malay: marsupial, binatang marsupial, haiwan marsupial
• Navajo: bizaʼazis hólónígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pungdyr n

  Nynorsk: pungdyr n

• Polish: torbacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: marsupial (pt) m
• Romanian: marsupial (ro)
• Russian: су́мчатый (ru) (súmčatyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: торбар, torbar (sh), тоболчар, tobolčar
• Spanish: marsupial m
• Swedish: pungdjur (sv) n
• Vietnamese: thú có túi
• Welsh: bolgodog (cy) m

See also

• Category:Marsupials

Adjective

marsupial (comparative more marsupial, superlative most marsupial)

1. Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
   • 1892, The American naturalist‎, page 125:

     Showing that this animal is marsupial, consists of the following characters.

   • 1952, The Motor‎, page 520:

     It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial.

   • 2002, Fiction Fix: First Injection, page 58:

     But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial, where the kangaroo lives.

2. (anatomy) Of or relating to a marsupium.

   the marsupial bones

Translations

of or pertaining to a marsupial

• Catalan: marsupial (ca)
• Galician: marsupial m or f
• Italian: marsupiale (it)
• Latin: marsupialis
• Macedonian: торбарски m (torbarski)
• Malay: marsupial
• Portuguese: marsupial (pt)
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• Romanian: marsupial (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: торбарски m

  Roman: torbarski (sh) m

• Spanish: marsupial
• Welsh: bolgodog (cy)

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Catalan

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupials)

1. marsupial

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.sy.pjal/

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupiaux)

1. marsupial

Further reading

• “marsupial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupiais)

1. marsupial (mammal species whose females have a pouch to carry the offspring)

Adjective

1. marsupial (of or relating to marsupials)

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin marsūpialis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin marsūpium "pouch", from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μαρσίππιον (marsíppion). More at marsupio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɾsuˈpjal/ [maɾ.suˈpjal]

Adjective

marsupial m or f (masculine and feminine plural marsupiales)

1. marsupial

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupiales)

1. marsupial

Related terms

• marsupio

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001