2) opossum. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. opossum or oˇposˇsums1. Any of various nocturnal, usually arboreal marsupials of the family Didelphidae, especially Didelphis marsupialis of...

3) opossum shrimp. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...See mysid....

4) possum. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Chiefly Southern U.S. An opossum. Short for opossum. Since English is a language that stresses some syllables and not others, weakly stressed syllables, especially...

5) yapok. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...yapok, see opossum....

6) yapok. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...An aquatic opossum (Chironectes minimus) of tropical America, having dense fur, webbed hind feet, and a long tail. After the Oyapock, a river of northern South America....

7) Aspers. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Aspers (AS-puhrs), uninc. village, Adams co., S Pa., 10 mi/16 km N of Gettysburg on Opossum Creek; 39°58'N 77°13'W. Mfg. (fruit processing, woodworking); agr. (dairying;...

8) Bendersville. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...(BEN-duhrz-vil), borough (1990 pop. 560), Adams co., S Pa., 10 mi/16 km N of Gettysburg, near Opossum Creek; 39°58'N 77°15'W. Mfg. (ceramic prods.; apple cider and...

9) Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
...in the main, indicating natural objects that had no counterparts in England. We find opossum, for example, in the form of opasum, in Captain John Smith s Map of Virginia...

10) mysid. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Mysidacea, the females of which carry their eggs in a pouch beneath the thorax. Also called opossum shrimp. From New Latin Mysis, Mysid-, type genus, from Greek musis,...