marsupial

noun

1. A mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears the young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to a marsupial.

   “Showing that this animal is marsupial, consists of the following characters.”

   “It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial.”

   “But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial, where the kangaroo lives.”

2. Of or relating to a marsupium.

   “the marsupial bones”