thylacine
noun/ˈθailəsiːn/
Etymology From translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).
1
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.2020, David Farrier, “The Moment Under the Moment”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:
- Synonyms
- Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, Tasmanian hyena, Kaparunina
- Derived terms
- thylacinamorphic
- Related terms
- sarcophile, sarcophiline, Sarcophilus harrisii