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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[F., from Braz.

çarigueia

çarigueira

(Zool.)

A small South American opossum (

Didelphys opossum

), having four white spots on the face.

a sarigue (Philander opossum)

sarigue ‎(plural sarigues)

A small South American opossum (Philander opossum) with four white spots on the face.

From Tupi via Portuguese

sarigue f ‎(plural sarigues)

Sarigue was historically masculine, but has been shifted to feminine in the twentieth century.