crab-eating opossum

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   South American opossum

   Broaderopossum

   Part ofDidelphis

Questions about crab-eating opossum

What does crab-eating opossum mean?

crab-eating opossum means "South American opossum".

Is crab-eating opossum a common word?

crab-eating opossum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.