marsupium

1. 1.

   an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled

   Broaderpouch

Other forms of marsupium

plural

marsupia

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about marsupium

What does marsupium mean?

marsupium means "an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled".

How many syllables are in marsupium?

marsupium has 4 syllables: mar-su-pi-um. The stress falls on "su".

Is marsupium a common word?

marsupium 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.