thylacine
English
editEtymology
editFrom translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈθailəsiːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editthylacine (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, Tasmanian hyena, Kaparunina
Translations
editextinct carnivorous marsupial
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editFrench
editNoun
editthylacine 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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