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An American marsupial which has a naked prehensile tail and hind feet with an opposable thumb.
Family Didelphidae: several genera and numerous species, in particular the cat-sized common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) of North, Central, and South America, which in North America was formerly known as the Virginia opossum and was considered a distinct species (D. virginiana)
Early 17th century from Virginia Algonquian opassom, from op ‘white’ + assom ‘dog’.