thylacine

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Two thylacines, c. 1904

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

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thylacine (plural thylacines)

  1. 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.

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Noun

thylacine m (plural thylacines)

  1. thylacine

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