Sentence examples for marsupium from inspiring English sources

The pouch, or marsupium, is variously structured.

The South American caenolestids, or rat opossums, have no marsupium.

Approximately 12 14 days after breeding, females give birth to one or two (occasionally three or four) offspring, or joeys, who subsequently climb into the mother's marsupium.

The opening to the marsupium (pouch) in females faces backward (that is, the pouch opening is located lower on the abdomen than the pouch itself) to prevent material excavated by burrowing activities from entering the cavity.

Females have five to nine teats in a well-developed pouch (marsupium).

Females of both groups have a ventral brood chamber (marsupium) formed by a series of medially directed (i.e., toward the body midline) plates (oostegites) in the region of the thorax, the region between head and abdomen.

Some marsupials have a pouchlike structure or fold, the marsupium, that shelters the suckling young.

For one thing, it's our own private Australia, the United States' sole living example of a marsupial mammal — a mammal that gestates its young in a pouch, or marsupium, rather than in a uterus, as we placental mammals do.