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fat-tailed dunnart

fat-tailed dunnart noun: a small carnivorous marsupial, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, native to Australia.

fat-tailed dunnart: a small carnivorous marsupial, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, native to Australia
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Noun

fat-tailed dunnart (plural fat-tailed dunnarts)

  1. A small carnivorous marsupial, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, native to Australia.
    • The scientists aim to reverse this by taking stem cells from a living species with similar DNA, the fat-tailed dunnart, and turning them into “thylacine” cells – or the closest approximation possible – using gene editing expertise developed by George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard...2022 August 16, Adam Morton, “De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger”, in The Guardian

Forms of fat-tailed dunnart

pluralfat-tailed dunnarts

Questions about fat-tailed dunnart

What does fat-tailed dunnart mean?
Fat-tailed dunnart means a small carnivorous marsupial, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, native to Australia.
What part of speech is fat-tailed dunnart?
Fat-tailed dunnart is a noun.
What is the plural of fat-tailed dunnart?
The plural of fat-tailed dunnart is fat-tailed dunnarts.

Words near fat-tailed dunnart in the dictionary

  1. fat-shames
  2. fat-shaming
  3. fat-soluble
  4. fat-tail
  5. fat-tailed
  6. fat-tailed dunnart
  7. fat-tailed dunnarts
  8. fat-tailed dwarf lemur
  9. fat-tailed dwarf lemurs
  10. fat-tailed lemur
  11. fat-tailed lemurs

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