marsupial mouse

English

Noun

marsupial mouse (plural marsupial mice)

  1. (Australia) Any of several small carnivorous marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, especially in the genera Sminthopsis and Antechinus. [from 19th c.]
    • 2011, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 137:
      The Surgeon cut me short with a fierce uplift of his beetle brow—and for a dreadful moment I feared two of the many marsupial mice in my cell had leapt up onto his face […] .

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