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Striped possum

Portuguese translation: opossum listrado


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English term or phrase:Striped possum
Portuguese translation:opossum listrado
Entered by: António Ribeiro
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14:24 Mar 1, 2006
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Zoology
English term or phrase: Striped possum
Nome ciêntifico: Dactylopsela Trivirgata

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Isabel Pinto
Local time: 21:16
opossum listrado
Explanation:
Opossum (ou, possum) é o nome em português.

Filatelia - Mammalia (3) - [ Translate this page ]Apesar de que, quando ouvimos falar de marsupiais, nos venha à memória o canguru, ... Habita o Sudoeste da Austrália e está em perigo de extinção. ...
www.fe.up.pt/~fff/Homepage/Fila_mami3.html


[PDF] Videogramas para as Ci ias da Terra e da Vida: Ensino B coFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
sobre vários desses animais, (cangurus, equidna, ornitorrinco, opossum, koala), abordando, ... desérticas da Austrália) ou a disseminação das sementes; ...
www.dgidc.min-edu.pt/inovbasic/ biblioteca/cem03/videogramas.pdf


Autor: Henrique JC de Oliveira url: http://www.prof2000.pt/users ... Austrália Monarquia que ocupa o continente com o mesmo nome ... de Arafura, de Coral e da Tasmânia ... leão, lira, lobo, mallabie, mombat, opossum, ornitorrinco, urso ...
natura.di.uminho.pt/natura/viewcvs.cgi/ megadic/dicionarioCruzadistico.txt?rev=1.10
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António Ribeiro
Local time: 06:16
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1opossum listradoAntónio Ribeiro
4gambá listradoClaudio Mazotti
3 -1marsupial listrado (Dactylopsela Trivirgata)
María Leonor Acevedo-Miranda


  

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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
striped possum
marsupial listrado (Dactylopsela Trivirgata)


Explanation:
Possum

A possum is any of about 25 small to medium-sized arboreal marsupials native to Australia. The name derives from their resemblance to the opossums of the Americas and, unlike most names applied to Australian fauna in the early years of European colonisation, happens to be accurate: the opossums of America are distant relatives. (The name is from Algonquian wapathemwa, not Greek or Latin, so the plural is possums, not *possa.) Possum is also used in North America as a diminutive for the Virginia opossum.

http://www.americazoo.com/goto/index/mammals/marsupialia.htm



María Leonor Acevedo-Miranda
Local time: 21:16
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  António Ribeiro: Desculpe lá, Maria Leonor, mas um canguru também é um marsupial e NÃO é um possum. O mesmo para um koala.
9 hrs
  -> pronto António... Vou para dentro...Um abraço
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
striped possum
gambá listrado


Explanation:
Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivergata; Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri ... Italiano (Italian) opossum. Português (Portuguese) n. - gambá (m) ...
www.answers.com/topic/possum



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Note added at 42 mins (2006-03-01 15:07:01 GMT)
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é uma das várias espécies de gambás listrados...

Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 32
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
striped possum
opossum listrado


Explanation:
Opossum (ou, possum) é o nome em português.

Filatelia - Mammalia (3) - [ Translate this page ]Apesar de que, quando ouvimos falar de marsupiais, nos venha à memória o canguru, ... Habita o Sudoeste da Austrália e está em perigo de extinção. ...
www.fe.up.pt/~fff/Homepage/Fila_mami3.html


[PDF] Videogramas para as Ci ias da Terra e da Vida: Ensino B coFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
sobre vários desses animais, (cangurus, equidna, ornitorrinco, opossum, koala), abordando, ... desérticas da Austrália) ou a disseminação das sementes; ...
www.dgidc.min-edu.pt/inovbasic/ biblioteca/cem03/videogramas.pdf


Autor: Henrique JC de Oliveira url: http://www.prof2000.pt/users ... Austrália Monarquia que ocupa o continente com o mesmo nome ... de Arafura, de Coral e da Tasmânia ... leão, lira, lobo, mallabie, mombat, opossum, ornitorrinco, urso ...
natura.di.uminho.pt/natura/viewcvs.cgi/ megadic/dicionarioCruzadistico.txt?rev=1.10


António Ribeiro
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agree  María Leonor Acevedo-Miranda
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