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Opossum Moderate

Opossum has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

2

nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America

3

Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. The common species of the United States is Didelphis virginiana.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
marsupial
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
cuscus brush-tailed phalanger flying phalanger koala common opossum crab-eating opossum
Rhyming Words
sum kusum cusum pisum resum outsum rossum possum yessum sursum dorsum hersum in sum gypsum pensum falsum chisum subsum omasum odd sum
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