antechinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antechinuses
form: antechini
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Antechinus.
Senses: examples: text: These are distinguished from the Monodelphia, or Placentalia, by bringing forth their young in a very rudimentary state, nourishing them in a “marsupium,” which is either a regular pouch or a simple skinfold, such as our native cats and antechini develop at the time of parturition.
ref: 1873 November 5, Gerard Krefft, “Australian Natural History”, in Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, for the Year 1873, Sydney, N.S.W.: Thomas Richards, […], published 1874, page 135:
text: Being on the West Coast at the time, and always anxious to forward any scientific investigations, I collected all the varieties of kangaroo rats, antechini, and rats that came under my observation.
ref: 1886, T[homas] B[ather] Moore, “Western Tasmania”, in J[ames] P[ark] Thomson, editor, Proceedings of the Queensland Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia. 1st Session, 1885-6., volume I, Brisbane, Qld.: Watson, Ferguson & Co., […], page 65:
text: Smaller than the wambengers, the antechinuses are secretive and are seldom seen by people unless they are caught and brought into houses by domestic cats.
ref: 1970, W. D. L. Ride, Ella Fry, A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia, page 116:
text: Two species of antechini live above the snowline. These are pugnacious rat-sized marsupials. Male antechini copulate so vigorously that they die from exhaustion.
ref: 1990, Eric Hoffman, “Victoria’s Alpine Region”, in Adventuring in Australia (The Sierra Club Adventure Travel Guides), San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books, →ISBN, page 239:
text: I thought it was my fault until I consulted the experts, and found that antechinus die naturally at this time of the year.[…]Antechinus eat beetles, spiders and cockroaches, which they find in decaying litter and topsoil in their habitat of dense ground cover.
ref: 1998, Deirdre Slattery, chapter I, in The Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks, page 67:
text: If held as a colony outside the breeding season, antechinus show relatively little aggression while still forming a linear hierarchy.
ref: 2007, Stephen Jackson, Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive Management, unnumbered page:
glosses: Any member of the genus Antechinus of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble shrews.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Antechinus agilis
word: agile antechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus godmani
word: Atherton antechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus stuartii
word: brown antechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus mysticus
word: buff-footed antechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus leo
word: cinnamon antechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus swainsonii
word: dusky antechinus
english: Pseudantechinus
translation: Pseudantechinus
word: false antechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus bellus
word: fawn antechinus
english: Pseudantechinus
translation: Pseudantechinus
word: pseudantechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus subtropicus
word: subtropical antechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus swainsonii
word: Swainson's artechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus minimus
word: swamp antechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus adustus
word: tropical antechinus
taxonomic: Antechinus flavipes
word: yellow-footed antechinus