- 1有袋動物
A marsupial is a kind of mammal whose babies are born very small and unfinished, then live in a pocket of skin on the mother’s body until they are strong enough. The kangaroo is the picture everyone knows, but koalas, wombats, and possums are marsupials too. Most of the famous ones live in Australia and nearby islands. Though actually, some, like the opossum, live in the Americas, so it is not only an Australian-animal word. The pocket is called a pouch. The word itself comes from an old word for a little bag or purse, which is a fair picture of that pocket. In science writing you will see marsupial as a noun — a kangaroo is a marsupial — and as an adjective: marsupial .
組成From Latin marsupium, 'pouch, purse', from Ancient Greek marsippos, 'bag, pouch', plus English -al.
同家族的字
- marsupiumthe scientific word for the pouch, from the same Latin bag-word
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
marsupialnoun/mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/
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A mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears the young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
marsupialadj/mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/
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Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
- Showing that this animal is marsupial, consists of the following characters.
- It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial.
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anatomymedicinesciencesOf or relating to a marsupium.
- the marsupial bones
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。