HyperDic: opossum_rat

English > 1 sense of the expression opossum rat:
NOUNanimalopossum ratterrestrial / terrestrial marsupials of southern South America that resemble shrews
English > opossum rat: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningterrestrial / terrestrial marsupials of southern South America that resemble shrews.
Member ofCaenolestes, genus Caenolestestype genus of the family Caenolestidae
Broadermarsupial, pouched mammalmammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried

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