Didelphis

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Didelphys \Di*del"phys\, n. [NL. See {Didelphia}.] (Zool.)
     Formerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted to an
     American genus which includes the opossums, of which there
     are many species. See {Opossum}. [Written also {Didelphis}.]
     See Illustration in Appendix. --Cuvier.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Didelphis
       n : type genus of the family Didelphidae [syn: {genus Didelphis}]