different between marsupial vs quoll

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 the earlier form je-quoll, from Guugu Yimidhirr dhigul. Recorded by Banks but then virtually forgotten for 150 years, with the term native cat used instead. Today readopted and gaining in popularity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?l/, /?kw??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kw?l/, /?kwo?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

quoll (plural quolls)

1. Any of the various carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus found in Australia and New Guinea, roughly the size of a cat.

Synonyms

• native cat

Translations

See also

• bilby

References

German

Pronunciation

Verb

quoll

1. first/third-person singular preterite of quellen