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marsupium

marsupium

9.9
A pouch on a mother's belly where young animals like a kangaroo or opossum stay and drink milk
  • noun
  • /mɑrˈsuːpiəm/
  • Specialized
translation icon : marsupio
  • The kangaroo's marsupium provides a safe place for its joey to develop after birth.

Examples

  • Scientists observed the opossum using its marsupium to carry and protect its young.

  • Unlike placental mammals, marsupials nurse their young inside the marsupium rather than a womb.

  • A kangaroo carries its young in a marsupium.

  • The marsupium provides a safe space for the baby.

  • The kangaroo's marsupium provides a safe place for its joey to develop after birth.

  • Scientists observed the opossum using its marsupium to carry and protect its young.

  • Unlike placental mammals, marsupials nurse their young inside the marsupium rather than a womb.

Synonyms

pouch
vsmarsupium
  • Specialized
15 4.6

A sac on an animal's body for holding young or food

is specific to most marsupials and functions to feed newborns by suckling

Compounds

Pterocarpus marsupium
  • Specialized
9.9

A tree from India that makes a sticky sap used as medicine and to make leather

How Big

marsupium
  • Specialized
9.9
pouch
  • Specialized
15 4.6
sac
  • Specialized
25 4.8

Surface Forms

marsupium singular
marsupia plural

Etymology

The word marsupium comes from an old Greek word meaning 'pouch' or 'small bag', and it shares the same root as marsupial, the animals that carry their babies in a pouch. So a marsupium is the external pouch where a newborn stays and is fed.