(archaic, transitive) To place in a pasture; to foster.
marsupial
marsupial
adj
(anatomy) Of or relating to a marsupium.
Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
noun
A mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as kangaroos or koalas, or else pouchless members of the Marsupialia like shrew opossums.
marsupian
marsupian
noun
(obsolete) marsupial
marsupium
marsupium
noun
A brood pouch in some fishes, crustaceans and insects in the family Monophlebidae.
The external pouch in which female marsupials rear and feed the young.
pastorium
pastorium
noun
(US, Southern US) A parsonage, in some Baptist churches.
pathrusim
pauperism
pauperism
noun
The state of being a pauper; poverty.
pluralism
pluralism
noun
(ecclesiastical) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
(law) The existence of differing legal systems in a population or area.
(philosophy) The belief that a plural predicate refers to its individuals rather than to a collective.
(philosophy) The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.
(politics) The acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems.
(politics) The belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society.
(sociology) A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.
The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
scoparium
septarium
septarium
noun
(geology) A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.
