marsupial

«marsupial» in Mova's school dictionary: a mammal whose babies are born very small and then grow… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a marsupial, marsupials); adjective (marsupial)

meaning for a pupil

1) A marsupial is a mammal whose babies are born very small and then grow inside a pouch on the mother's body. tree →

2) Marsupial describes animals of this kind. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, marsupials are a group of mammals: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, possums, Tasmanian devils and opossums. Most live in Australia and New Guinea; the opossum lives in the Americas. A baby marsupial is called a joey (for kangaroos and koalas).

examples

• A kangaroo is a marsupial. tree →
• Marsupials carry their babies in a pouch. tree →
• The koala is a marsupial, not a bear. tree →
• The baby wombat stays in its mother's pouch. tree →
• The opossum is the only marsupial in North America. tree →
• Most marsupials live in Australia. tree →
• Is a platypus a marsupial? No, it lays eggs. tree →

note

Countable. Trap: the koala is often called a "koala bear", but it is not a bear. The platypus and echidna lay eggs; they are monotremes, not marsupials.

In the corpora

• There are eight species of bear, and the koala is not one of them but a marsupial.
• Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt.
• Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.
• Opossums are marsupials: the tiny babies grow in their mother's pouch and later ride on her back.
• Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials: their babies grow in a pouch.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «marsupial» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.