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marsupialia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mar-su-pi-alia
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

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 .

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What does marsupialia mean?
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 .

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