OPOSSUM RAT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Terrestrial marsupials of southern South America that resemble shrews

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("opossum rat" is a kind of...):

marsupial; pouched mammal (mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried)

Holonyms ("opossum rat" is a member of...):

Caenolestes; genus Caenolestes (type genus of the family Caenolestidae)

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