Meanings
nounpolyprotodont (plural polyprotodonts)
plural polyprotodonts
- Any marsupial of the order †Polyprotodontia.
adjectivepolyprotodont (not comparable)
- not comparableBelonging to the Polyprotodontia order.
The lack of a second cervical thymus in the pouch young thylacine is similar to the findings in all other polyprotodont marsupials studied to date [21 ] and further supports the findings of Johnstone [20 ].
2015 December 15, “Immunological Insights into the Life and Times of the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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