Meanings
plural marsupial mice
- AustraliaAny of several small carnivorous marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, especially in the genera Sminthopsis and Antechinus.First known use 19th c.
The Surgeon cut me short with a fierce uplift of his beetle brow—and for a dreadful moment I feared two of the many marsupial mice in my cell had leapt up onto his face […].
2011, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 137
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany of numerous small sharp-nosed insectivorous marsupials superficially resembling mice or rats
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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