| bettong | a short-nosed rat kangaroo. |
| bilby | a burrowing marsupial. |
| boongary | a tree kangaroo from Queensland. |
| boodie | a species of rat-kangaroo. |
| boomer | a large male kangaroo. |
| burramys | a rare Australian opossum. |
| coala koala | an Australian marsupial. |
| dalgyte | another name for the BILBY. |
| dasyure | a flesh-eating Australian marsupial mammal. [Gk. dasys, shaggy + oura, tail]. |
| dibbler | a small carnivorous Australian marsupial with long snout and short hairy tail. |
| didelphid | any member of the marsupial family Didelphidae, the opossums. |
| didelphian didelphine didelphous | of or like the Didelphia, the marsupials. |
| duckbill duckmole | a platypus. |
| dunnart | a marsupial mouse of Australia and Papua New Guinea. |
| echidna | a kind of anteater > ECHIDNAE or ECHIDNAS. |
| euro | any of several large types of kangaroo, aka WALLAROO > EUROS. |
| kangaroo | a large marsupial; (verb) to bound like a kangaroo. |
| koolah | an obsolete form of KOALA. |
| marmose | a species of small opossum ranging from Mexico to Brazil. |
| marsupial marsupian | a member of the Marsupialia, pouched mammals. |
| monotreme | a primitive Australian egg-laying mammal, e.g. duck- billed platypus. |
| numbat | a small Australian marsupial that feeds on termites. |
| opossum | any of various small or medium-sized marsupial mammals, mostly arboreal, of the mainly neotropical family Didelphidae. |
| paddymelon pademelon padymelon | any of several small wallabies. |
| petaurine | relating to a PETAURIST, a flying PHALANGER. |
| petaurist | a flying PHALANGER. |
| phalanger | any of several kinds of long-tailed Australian marsupial. |
| phalangist | any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. |
| phascogale | a small insectivorous mouselike marsupial. |
| platypus | an egg-laying mammal > PLATYPI or PLATYPUSES. |
| potoroo | a kind of small kangaroo, aka kangaroo rat. |
| quokka | a small marsupial found in W. Australia. |
| quoll | an Australian marsupial, about the size of a cat. |
| roo | a kangaroo. |
| tammar | a small scrub wallaby. |
| tarsiped | a marsupial of the genus Tarsipes. |
| thylacine | the Tasmanian wolf. |
| tuan | an Australian marsupial, aka WAMBENGER. |
| wallaby | any of a number of small marsupials of the family Macropodidae. |
| wallaroo | any of several large types of kangaroo. |
| wambenger | a small Australian marsupial, aka TUAN. |
| wombat | any of three species of Australian burrowing marsupial. |
| yapock yapok | an amphibious opossum of South America, the only aquatic marsupial. [From the river Oyapok in French Guiana]. |
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