thylacine
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).
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Noun[edit]
thylacine (plural thylacines)
- A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.
- 2020, David Farrier, “The Moment Under the Moment”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:
- […] high up on an overhanging rock, perhaps twenty feet above the ground, a ghostly white thylacine was clearly visible. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, have been extinct on the mainland of Australia for at least two thousand years.
Synonyms[edit]
- (carnivorous mammal): Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, Kaparunina
Translations[edit]
extinct carnivorous marsupial
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French[edit]
Noun[edit]
thylacine m (plural thylacines)
Further reading[edit]
- “thylacine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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