opossum rat

English Thesaurus

1. terrestrial marsupials of southern South America that resemble shrews (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	marsupial, pouched mammal,
definition	:	mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	caenolestes, genus caenolestes,
definition	:	type genus of the family Caenolestidae (noun.animal)