Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Any of several Australian dasyurid marsupials, of the genus Phascogale, the males of which die shortly after mating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
pouched mice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: genus Phascogale
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mammal genus
History
From genus name, translingual Phascogale (from Ancient Greek φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “pouch, wallet”) + γαλέη (galéē, “weasel”)), classified 1824 by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
