thylacine

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/ˈθailəsiːn/

Definition of thylacine

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noun

A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.

“[…]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.”

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From translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).

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