The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word MARSUPIAL
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More clues leading to the result MARSUPIAL
- Animal god completed miracle, oddly ignored
- Bandicoot, say, camouflaged in puma’s lair
- Perhaps Joey is up, alarm having gone off
- Joey hurts, having an erection – “Ail badly!”
- Florid as primula one’s pocketed?
- One that always pockets litter
- Foolishly, Paul’s aim to box head of rampant kangaroo, perhaps?
- Frenchman left au pairs inside playing possum?
- Sort of animal liking a fight taking time out for drink
- Joey maybe messes up at one-all, getting dismissed finally
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What does MARSUPIAL mean?
MARSUPIAL noun- A mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala, or else pouchless members of the Marsupialia like the shrew opossum.
- Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
- Of or relating to a marsupium.