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How did an opossum get i'ts name?
'Opossum' means 'white animal' or 'white mammal'.
What is the name of the herbivores that are found in Nevada The ones that look like giant rats?
You might mean the opossum.
What does an opossum do after it is attacked?
After it is attacked, the Opossum usually does exactly what its name means. "Play Dead".
What is the scientific name for the opossum?
Possums belong to the family Phalangeridae and order Marsupialia, while opossums belong to the order Didelphimorphia, although they are also marsupials.
What is the name of a male opossum?
Mr. Possum
What rodent name has 9 letters?
Opossum has 7 letters in it. But the "o" is not pronounced(I mean, uh, said?).
How do you spell possum?
There are two forms : "possum" and "opossum". One generalization uses the name "possum" to mean the marsupials of Australia and Asia, and the name "opossum" for the species that live in the Western Hemisphere. They are related but different. In the US, it is common to call an opossum a "possum".Either would be acceptable unless you are writing a technical biology paper.Answer:Possum is the spelling for a marsupial native to Australia, New Zealand and China. Opossums are found in the Americas. The name is drawn from the Powhatan native American languages.
How did possum get its name?
There are slightly different versions of how the 'possum got its name. From WikiPedia (see also link below): The Virginia Opossum is the original animal named "opossum". The word comes from Algonquian 'wapathemwa' meaning "white animal", not from Greek or Latin, so the plural is opossums. Colloquially, the Virginia Opossum is frequently called simply possum. The name is applied more generally to any of the other marsupials of the Didelphimorphia and Paucituberculata orders, which includes a number of opossum species in South America. The possums of Australia, whose name is derived from a similarity to the Virginia Opossum, are also marsupials, but of the order Diprotodontia. From the Opossum Society of the US: The name "opossum" is derived from an Algonquian Indian word "apasum", meaning white animal.
What does opossums mean?
An Opossum is a mammal. It is North America's only marupial (pouched animal).
A beasts name starting with o?
* ogre * octopus * opossum * otter
Mammal with 7 letters in its name?
Opossum, raccoon, panther...
Can your cat get sick from eating after oppossum?
Do you mean, "can your cat get sick from eating an opossum?" If that is what you mean, the answer is sometimes. Eating an opossum isn't different from eating any other kind of animal they might kill and eat, but the opossum might have some sort of disease that can transfer to your cat. It is common for cats to get tapeworms from eating their kill.
