thylacine

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈθailəsiːn/

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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.

• (carnivorous mammal): Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, Kaparunina

• sarcophile
• sarcophiline
• Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil)

• Telychian

thylacine m (plural thylacines)

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• “thylacine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.