Usually means: Marsupials with prehensile tails, nocturnal.
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  1. opossums: Merriam-Webster
  2. opossums: Collins English Dictionary
  3. opossums: Vocabulary.com
  4. Opossums, opossums: Wordnik
  5. opossums: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. opossums: Wiktionary
  7. opossums: Dictionary.com
  8. opossums: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Opossums: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. opossums: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. opossums: Encyclopedia

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  3. opossums: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (opossum)

noun:  Any American marsupial of the order Didelphimorphia. The common species of the United States is Didelphis virginiana.
noun:  Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.
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