Definition of "didelphis" []

• Same as Didelphys and the preferred (though erroneous) form, under the rule of priority. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "At this period domestic animals were not numerous in the Moluccas, but among the wild animals the most curious were the _babiroussa_, an enormous wild boar with long tusks bent backwards; the opossum, a kind of didelphis a little larger than our squirrel; the phalanger,"