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.

• Beadle
  A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
• Betake
  To take or seize.
• Bechic
  Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough.
• Bellowing
  of Bellow
• Bewrayer
  One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer.
• Bedwarf
  To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
• Beneficient
  Beneficent.
• Marsupium
  The pouch, formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen, in which marsupials carry their young; also, a pouch for similar use in other animals, as certain Crustacea.
• Begonia
  A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.
• Bernicle
  A bernicle goose.
• BELLSPALSY
  Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face.
• Beakhead
  An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
• Bejade
  To jade or tire.
• Bethrall
  To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall.
• Becoming
  of Become
• Bellycheat
  An apron or covering for the front of the person.
• Bezonian
  A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.
• Beef-witted
  Stupid; dull.
• Bengola
  A Bengal light.
• Smallpox
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thi

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