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marmose|ˈmɑːməʊs|
[a. F. marmose (Buffon), possibly from colonial Du.: cf. MDu. marmoyse, mermoyse (see mermoyse), marmoset, believed to be a shortening of F. marmouset.]
One of several species of small South American opossums (as Didelphys dorsigera and D. murina) which have only a rudimentary pouch and carry their young on their back.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) II. 162 An animal greatly resembling the former [i.e. the opossum], is the Marmose. |