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opossum

noun
🔊/əˈpɒsəm/
🔊/əˈpɑːsəm/
(Australian English, New Zealand English or North American English, informal possum)
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  1. a small American or Australian animal that lives in trees and carries its young in a pouch负鼠（产于美洲或澳大利亚的小动物，在树上生活，携幼崽于母兽育儿袋中）
     (= a pocket of skin on the front of the mother’s body)    Topics Animalsc2
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Virginia Algonquian opassom, from op ‘white’ + assom ‘dog’.