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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/#m1)

2) Marsupial describes animals of this kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/#x1)
- Marsupials carry their babies in a pouch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/#x2)
- The koala is a marsupial, not a bear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/#x3)
- The baby wombat stays in its mother's pouch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/#x4)
- The opossum is the only marsupial in North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/#x5)
- Most marsupials live in Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/#x6)
- Is a platypus a marsupial? No, it lays eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/5/)
- [Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/4/)
- [Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/14/)
- [Opossums are marsupials: the tiny babies grow in their mother's pouch and later ride on her back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/11/)
- [Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials: their babies grow in a pouch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «marsupial» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsupial/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.