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Meaning of marsupial mouse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any of several small carnivorous marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, especially in the genera Sminthopsis and Antechinus.

Australia

Examples

“The Surgeon cut me short with a fierce uplift of his beetle brow—and for a dreadful moment I feared two of the many marsupial mice in my cell had leapt up onto his face […].”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

marsupialian marsupialiform marsupialization marsupialoid Marsupials marsupian