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marsupium [mahr-soo-pee-uh m] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun, plural mar·su·pi·a [mahr-soo-pee-uh] /mɑrˈsu pi ə/. the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of marsupium 1690–1700; New Latin, variant of Latin marsuppium pouch, purse Greek marsýppion, diminutive of mársippos a bag, pouch Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for marsupium Historical Examples of marsupium
Name a diminutive of marsupium, a pouch, from the form of the perianth.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States
Asa Gray
That there is more than one pouch makes a comparison with the mammary pouch rather than with the marsupium probable.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia
Frank Evers Beddard
Mammals belonging to quite different Orders show traces more or less marked of a marsupium.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia
Frank Evers Beddard
These are distinguished by the possession of a permanent nursery-pocket, the “marsupium.”
Stories of the Universe: Animal Life
B. Lindsay
These bones however have no connection with the marsupium, being nearly equally developed in both male and female.
Sidney H. Reynolds
British Dictionary definitions for marsupium marsupium noun plural -pia (-pɪə) an external pouch in most female marsupials within which the newly born offspring are suckled and complete their development Word Origin for marsupium C17: New Latin, from Latin: purse, from Greek marsupion, diminutive of marsipos Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
