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Didelphus murina
Marmose Mar"mose`, n. [F.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of small opossum (Didelphus murina) ranging from Mexico to Brazil.

Meaning of Delphus from wikipedia

- mythology, Delphus (/ˈdɛlfəs/; Ancient Gr****: Δέλφος, Delphos) was the person from whom the town of Delphi was believed to have derived its name. Delphus was...
- Delphus E. Carpenter (1877–1951) was the Commissioner of Interstate Streams for the State of Colorado at a time when Western States' water rights were...
- Delphus Kill is a river that flows into the Mohawk River in Dunsbach Ferry, New York. "Delphus Kill". Geographic Names Information System. United States...
- to make them his priests. While Delphi is actually related to the word delphus ("womb"), many etiological myths are similarly based on folk etymology...
- the city of Daulis and Melaeno mother of Delphus by Apollo, though he also gives two other accounts of Delphus' mother. However, one of these alternate...
- mean uterus-shaped club, from the Latin clava meaning club and the Gr**** delphus meaning uterus. Clavariadelphus americ**** (Corner) Methven (1989) Clavariadelphus...
- New Pauly, s.v. Terpsic****; Suda λ 568. Pausanias, 10.6.3. Grimal, s.v. Delphus, p. 131; Pausanias, 10.6.4. Pausanias, 10.6.4. Brill's New Jacoby, s.v...
- was seduced by Poseidon the shape of a dolphin and by him, bore a son Delphus. In one account, Melantheia instead married King Hyamus of Hyampolis, son...
- /ˈdɛlfiː/. The bottom line on the etymology is that Delphoi is related to delphus, "womb", which is consistent with the omphalos stone there being considered...
- daughter of Deucalion. Celaeno or her sister Melanis became the mother of Delphus by Apollo. Celaeno, daughter of Ergea by Poseidon. She was the mother of...