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marsupiate, a. and n.|mɑːˈsjuːpɪeɪt| [f. marsupi-um + -ate.] = marsupial.
1834Owen in Phil. Trans. CXXIV. 361 The impregnated uteri of the Edentate and Marsupiate genera. 1849Fraser's Mag. XXXIX. 297 A marsupiate sea-monster is horribly unorthodox. 1858W. Clark tr. Van der Hoeven's Zool. II. 594 The placenta..occurs in the mammals alone; but it is, however, wanting in the Marsupiates and Monotremes. Hence marˈsupiated ppl. a. in the same sense.
1890in Century Dict. |