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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Didelphys and the preferred (though erroneous) form, under the rule of priority.
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- noun type genus of the family Didelphidae
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At this period domestic animals were not numerous in the Moluccas, but among the wild animals the most curious were the _babiroussa_, an enormous wild boar with long tusks bent backwards; the opossum, a kind of didelphis a little larger than our squirrel; the phalanger,
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866
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