different between marsupial vs quokka

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

From Nyunga kwaka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?k?/

Noun

quokka (plural quokkas)

1. A cat-sized marsupial, Setonix brachyurus, of southwestern Australia.
   • 2003, John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence, page 29,

     At least 673 quokkas were re-introduced from Rottnest Island to the Marsupial Research Station of the University of Western Australia (254 ha) at Jandakot from 1972 to 1988.

   • 2005, Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 354,

     Tammars, quokkas and black-footed rock wallabies inhabit islands in the southwest, while three species of hare wallaby, the burrowing bettong and five species of rock wallaby inhabit various islands in the northwest.

   • 2012, Ken Richardson, Australia's Amazing Kangaroos: Their Conservation, Unique Biology and Coexisternce with Humans, page 125,

     Older unburnt areas (more than 25 years) on their own appear unable to sustain a quokka population.

     The largest number of quokkas occurs on Rottnest Island near Perth, where the population estimates vary from 8000 to 12,000 individuals.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

From Nyunga kwaka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?k.ka/
• Hyphenation: quòk?ka

Noun

quokka m (invariable)

1. quokka (Setonix brachyurus)

References

• quokka in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana