Word Meanings - DIDELPHIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.

Related words: (words related to DIDELPHIA)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MAMMALIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
• MAMMALIA
  The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother. Note: Mammalia are divided into threes subclasses; --I. Placentalia. This subclass embraces all the
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• MARSUPIALIA
  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
• SUBCLASS
  One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.
• MARSUPIALIAN; MARSUPIAN
  One of the Marsupialia.