| 单词 | philander opossum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasphilander opossum 2. Any of various marsupials of the genus Philander, now restricted to South American opossums of the family Didelphidae which typically have a white spot above each eye. Also (now chiefly) philander opossum.Valid publication of the genus name: F. Tiedemann Zoologie (1808) I. 426. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Didelphidae (opossum) > other types of philander1753 marmose1774 murine opossum1796 water opossum1819 yapock1827 manicou1953 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Didelphis, the name by which Linnæus calls the animal called philander by other writers. 1775 W. Kenrick & J. Murdoch tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals II. 352 The middle-sized and small ones are,..the coati, the paca, the philander, or opossum, the aperea, and the tatou. 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 188 (heading) Philander opossum. 1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. Index 672/1 Philander, Naked-tailed. 1871 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 161 258 Some Opossums, e.g. the murine and dorsigerous Philanders,..have the mandible intermediate in size. 1981 Biotropica 13 233 A Javelin Model 221 night vision scope was used to observe predators, including philander opossums (Philander opossum), at distances of 2-4 m. < as lemmas |
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