Opossum

What do we mean by opossum?

Any of various nocturnal, usually arboreal marsupials of the family Didelphidae of the Americas, especially Didelphis virginiana of North and Central America, having a thick coat, a long snout, and a long prehensile tail. noun

A possum of Australia and adjacent islands. noun

An American marsupial mammal of the family Didelphyidæ (which see for technical characters). noun

A name of sundry other marsupials: as, the ursine opossum (that is, the ursine dasyure); the vulpine opossum (the vulpine phalangist). noun

Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes; called also possum. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana. noun

See Flying mouse, under Flying. noun

Any schizopod crustacean of the genus Mysis and allied genera. See Schizopoda. noun

Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys virginiana. noun

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

Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails noun

Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. The common species of the United States is Didelphis virginiana.

Words that are spelled similarly to opossum:
opossum, possum.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word opossum:
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Words that rhyme with opossum:
awesome, blossom, possum, awsome, phospham, play possum, fossum, across him, across some, boss him, boss some, cross him, cross some, draw some, foresaw some, law some, loss some, os him, os some, outlaw some, oversaw some, saw some, thaw some, toss him, toss some, vanrossum, wasem, wassom, wassum, withdraw some, ya some.

Adjectives that are often used to describe opossum:
american, common, north, tailed, female, young, australian, newborn, small, male, old, gray, little, woolly, south, eyed, dead, grey, marsupial, modern, brazilian, fat, eared, eating, neonatal, tiny, live, adult, virginian, postnatal, occasional, fossil, philander, primitive, patagonian, brown, murine, funny, thorough, aplacental, beautiful, faced, juvenile, tail, arboreal, roasted, ringtail, known, tame, familiar, shy, striped, shorttailed, eastern, vulpine, queer, pouch, virginia, fetal, developed, immature, curious, rare, infant, tasmanian, nocturnal, slender, robbing, sized, week, born, unanesthetized, sly, baked, wooly, lowly, shouldered.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective opossum:
skins, shrimp, cells, skin, hair, family, rugs, shrimps, totem, hunting, tribe, sphincter, meat, kind, brain, esophagus, rug, kidney, embryo, cortex, man, fur, muscle, yarn, cord, god, wool, teeth, neurohypophysis, string, musculature, embryos, flesh, neocortex, tail, tree, locality, hunters, testis, furs, cloaks, grease, fat, menace, gallbladder, skull, band, milk, lymphocytes, head, liver, adrenal, sperm, mouse, stomach, trail, hunt.

Consonant match to opossum:
episome.

Words that sound like opossum:
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