opossum

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We had a huge argument that opossum wasn't a word.

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small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

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noun

small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

noun

nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for opossum.

noun

small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

noun

nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America

Example sentences

We had a huge argument that opossum wasn't a word.

I put "box" on the triple word score and connect it with opossum and won the game.

So maybe there was an opossum once, and now you have to forbid vegetables for life ?

Allegedly they eat 90% of the ticks that they encounter, which can be up to 5000 per opossum in a season.

"Even if there isn't a species of opossum that gestates for seven months, free speech might still be a good idea.

It's amazing how large and menacing an opossum or deer can sound walking through the underbrush.

I had to relocate an opossum recently and it was disappointing for that reason.

"The gestation period of some species of opossum being seven months, the right of the people to speak freely shall not be infringed.

Encouraging a local opossum population, if they live in your area, would help.

After carefully moving it into a cat carrier, I helped the opossum find a new home about a mile away at the bayou.

I wonder if a similar expansion and increase in intelligence is also occurring with opossums.

I use this silly example to help people read the 2nd amendment:"The gestation period of some species of opossum being seven months, the right of the people to speak freely shall not be infringed.

They put a collar with a small wireless device around their necks to track their movements and habits, but couldn't understand why a disproportionate amount of opossums died for some reason....

Remember: they don't operate by your standard of reasoning: whenever you find the missing link between hamster and opossum, they just see it as two new missing links in the chain of evolution.

If it attracts an actual plague of opossums, I can understand measures to get rid of them, but the occasional opossum shouldn't be a problem if they occur naturally in the area.

I don't, however, think that anyone bothers to notify the squirrels, rabbits, opossum, and birds about those limitations - they will all continue to frolic on doused areas, eat and drink from those areas.

[147] Menopause also has been reported in a variety of other vertebrate species including elephants,[148] short-finned pilot whales,[149] killer whales,[150] narwhals,[151] beluga whales,[151] the guppy,[152] the platyfish,[citation needed] the budgerigar,[citation needed] the laboratory rat and mouse,[citation needed] and the opossum.