Etymology

Robinson's mouse opossum

Today it means: Marmosa robinsoni, a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Wirt Robinson, the collector of the specimen from which it was first described.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.