METATHERIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metatherian mean? 

• METATHERIAN (noun)
  The noun METATHERIAN has 1 sense:

1. primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas

  Familiarity information: METATHERIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METATHERIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas

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Nouns denoting animals

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)