Definitions for marsupium

marsupium mar·su·pi·um

Spelling: [mahr-soo-pee-uh m]
IPA: /mɑrˈsu pi əm/

Marsupium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in marsupium (aimmprsuu).

Definitions for marsupium

noun

  1. the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.

Origin of marsupium

1690-1700; New Latin, variant of Latin marsuppium pouch, purse Greek marsýppion, diminutive of mársippos a bag, pouch

Examples for marsupium

That there is more than one pouch makes a comparison with the mammary pouch rather than with the marsupium probable.

These are distinguished by the possession of a permanent nursery-pocket, the "marsupium."

Name a diminutive of marsupium, a pouch, from the form of the perianth.

Mammals belonging to quite different Orders show traces more or less marked of a marsupium.

These bones however have no connection with the marsupium, being nearly equally developed in both male and female.

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