opossum - transcription, translation and pronunciation online

Transcription and pronunciation of the word "opossum" in British and American variants. Detailed translation and examples.

opossum
[əˈpɒs.əm]
[-ˈpɑː.səm]
Definitions
noun
an American marsupial that has a ratlike prehensile tail and hind feet with an opposable thumb.
Scientists say this mammal is the oldest known fossil ancestor of modern marsupials - which include opossums , kangaroos, and koalas.
Examples
The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum , wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
The opossum sleeps 19 hours out of every 24 and the giraffe sleeps only about 2.
Primitively clumsy and slow, with conical heads and pointed pink noses, sparse gray fur and naked ears, mature opossums reach the size of house cats (about ten pounds).
He goes behind the fields and starts to trap opossums , skunks, rabbits, and squirrels.
All kinds of critters like to dine on poultry, including raccoons, skunks, opossums , weasels, foxes, coyotes, dogs and feral cats.
A farmer looking through the fields before harvesting his crop sees rabbits, opossums , mice, rats, birds, foxes, skunks and snakes.
In Florida's Marion County, Interstate 75 cuts right through a state-long swath of greenway that's habitat for bobcats, opossums , and armadillos.
Skunks, foxes, weasels, opossums and rabbits all use groundhog burrows for their dens.
That's when the animals are most active and it's fun to see the deer, raccoons, opossums , rabbits, and birds.
As forests become chopped up into ever smaller chunks, the amount of ‘edge’ habitat increases for predators such as blue jays, crows, raccoons, opossums , feral cats, black rat snakes, and others that prey upon birds or their eggs.