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opossum: nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America phalanger: small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
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A possum is any of about 25 small to medium-sized arboreal marsupials native to Australia. The name derives from their resemblance to the opossums of the Americas and, unlike most names applied to Australian fauna in the early years of European colonisation, happens to be accurate: the opossums of America are distant relatives. (The name is from Algonquian wapathemwa, not Greek or Latin, so the plural is possums, not *possa. ...
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Australian brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), introduced to New Zealand from Australia from 1837 to 1922. In early New Zealand literature, possums were often referred to as opossums, although recent literature, including this document, has standardised on possum. The term opossum is used in North America and refers to the native American marsupial Didelphis virginiana
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