Word Meanings - MARSUPIALIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.

• Betrimming
  of Betrim
• Beautied
  Beautiful; embellished.
• Belladonna
  An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largel
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Bedrench
  To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.
• Bendy
  Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
• AMERICANPLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• Beggared
  of Beggar
• Berdash
  A kind of neckcloth.
• Bespitting
  of Bespit
• Besotted
  of Besot
• Beaches
  of Beach
• Bettong
  A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.
• Bebloody
  To make bloody; to stain with blood.
• Bellicose
  Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
• Callus
  Same as Callosity
• Bedstaff
  "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."
• Benefactor
  One who confers a benefit or benefits.
• BEARSFOOT
  A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
• Begun
  of Begin

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