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possum

Another name for the opossum, a marsupial animal with a prehensile tail found in North, Central and South America. The name is also used for many of the smaller marsupials found in Australia.

Among the smaller marsupials found in Australia are the tiny honey possum Tarsipes spencerae, which has a long tongue to take nectar from flowers. The big gliding possum Schoinobates volans can glide 100 m/300ft or more on the large membrane stretched between front and back limbs. The brush possum Trichosurus vulpecula is now common in New Zealand.



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He cocked his head to one side, shut one eye and put the other one to the hole, like a possum looking down a jug; then he glanced up with his bright eyes, gave a wink or two with his wings--which signifies gratification, you understand--and says, 'It looks like a hole, it's located like a hole--blamed if I don't believe it IS a hole
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Never imposing upon any one myself, I suffered no one to play the possum with me.
The Business Man by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Those tangy frosty afternoons, when he had been forced to clean barns and plow while the other boys went rabbit and possum hunting or nutting, were afternoons whose loss he still mourned.
Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context
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