Opossum

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• opossum

  n. The marsupial animal, frequent allover Australia, which is called an Opossum, is a Phalanger (q.v...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Water opossum

  ·- ·see <<Yapock>>, and the Note under <<Opossum>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• opossum-mouse

  n. the small Australianmarsupial, Acrobates pygmaeus, Shaw; more correctlycalled the Pigmy Flying-P...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• opossum-tree

  n. a timber-tree, Quintiniasieberi, De C., N.O. Saxifrageae. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• opossum-shrimp

  A crustacean, so named from its young being carried about in a sort of pouch for some little time af...

  The Sailor's Word-Book