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opossum
/əˈpɑsəm/
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What does opossum mean?
noun
- Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.
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Round her arms she bound goomils--opossum hair armlets--into which she placed more sprays of flowers, matching those in the girl's hair.
The celebrated American carrier, the Opossum, who emancipates her offspring after a few weeks' carting, cuts a poor figure beside the Lycosa.
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The next morning one of the brothers brought me a beautiful opossum, which had been caught in the fowl-house a little before sunrise.
Some few species alone have passed the barrier, and may be considered as wanderers from the south, such as the puma, opossum, kinkajou, and peccari.
The tail of an opossum is a prehensile thing, but it is too far from his eyes; the elephant’s trunk is better, and it is probably to their trunks that the elephants owe their sagacity.