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ALL meanings of possum

pos·sum
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  • noun possum opossum. 1
  • noun possum Australian. any of various phalangers, especially of the genus Trichosurus. 1
  • idioms possum play possum, Informal. to feign sleep or death. to dissemble or pretend ignorance: The baseball broke the window, but the children played possum when asked who had thrown it. 1
  • countable noun possum A possum is the same as an opossum. 0
  • noun possum any of various Australasian arboreal marsupials, such as Trichosurus vulpecula (brush-tailed phalanger), having dense fur and a long tail: family Phalangeridae 0
  • noun possum opossum 0
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