different between marsupial vs bettong

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??.?su?.pi.?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m??.?su.pi.?l/
• Hyphenation: mar?su?pial

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

Related terms

• Marsupialia
• marsupialoid
• marsupium

Translations

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /m??.su.pi?al/

• (Central) IPA^(key): /m?r.su.pi?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma?.su.pi?al/

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupials)

1. marsupial

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?.sy.pjal/

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupiaux)

1. marsupial

Further reading

• “marsupial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupiais)

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

Adjective

marsupial m or f (plural marsupiais, comparable)

1. marsupial (of or relating to marsupials)

Romanian

Etymology

From French marsupial.

Noun

marsupial n (plural marsupiale)

1. marsupial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin mars?pialis, from Latin mars?pium "pouch", from Ancient Greek ?????????? (marsíppion). More at marsupio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?su?pjal/, [ma?.su?pjal]

Adjective

marsupial (plural marsupiales)

1. marsupial

Noun

marsupial m (plural marsupiales)

1. marsupial

Related terms

• marsupio

Further reading

• “marsupial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Recorded in English since 1830–40; from the aboriginal language Dharug badang.

Noun

bettong (plural bettongs)

1. Any marsupial of the genus Bettongia, closely related to kangaroos.

   Bettongs rather resemble rats, having short noses, short, rounded ears, long hind feet and a naked muzzle tip

Derived terms

See also

• boodie
• potoroo
• rat-kangaroo
• woylie