Adjective modifier

• Australian: The ' large ' Australian marsupials are no where near the size of extinct species.

• small: Rabbits, after their introduction, quickly supplanted other small marsupials and rodents, competing with them as favorites among hunters.

• large: It is the largest marsupial in the world. · The Kangaroo moves by hopping on its powerful hind legs.

• other: Rabbits, after their introduction, quickly supplanted other small marsupials and rodents, competing with them as favorites among hunters.

• giant: The same dramatic changes brought about the extinction of the giant marsupials at the end of this period.

• most: Then it applied a defensive device common to most arboreal marsupials.

Modifies a noun

• mammal: The Museum houses a collection of monotreme and marsupial mammals, collected from Australia and Tasmania by Morton Allport and others.

• mouse: The brush-tailed marsupial mouse has a unique reproductive strategy.

• lion: Marsupial lion bites strongest - 06/04/2005 Study reveals extinct marsupial lion may have had the strongest bite among mammals.

• wolf: This creature, actually a marsupial wolf, is the state's official mascot.

• specie: Feral cats kill and eat more than 100 types of native Australian birds, 50 mammal and marsupial species and 50 reptile species.

• shed: Marsupial genome sheds light on the evolution of immunity 30/1/06.

Noun used with modifier

• mammal: Marsupials and placental mammals Marsupials and placental mammals give birth to live young.