opossum rat

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   terrestrial marsupials of southern South America that resemble shrews

   Broadermarsupial

   Part ofCaenolestes

Questions about opossum rat

What does opossum rat mean?

opossum rat means "terrestrial marsupials of southern South America that resemble shrews".

Is opossum rat a common word?

opossum rat 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.