how to pronounce opossum

/əˈpɒs.əm/

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opossum is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of opossum in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… lamping wallaby and opossum dressed …”

meanings of opossum

noun:

Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. The common species of the United States is Didelphis virginiana.

opossum frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word opossum occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics opossum can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that opossum can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;