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METATHERIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("metatherian" is a kind of...):
mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "metatherian"):
marsupial; pouched mammal (mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried)
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