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marsupial lions

marsupial lions is the plural of marsupial lion.

Meaning of marsupial lion

Noun

marsupial lion (plural marsupial lions)

  1. A carnivorous marsupial that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene, of the extinct genus Thylacoleo
    • The first Australians, I reflected, will have known real monsters such as the Thylacaleo, or ‘marsupial lion’.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 225

Questions about marsupial lions

What is marsupial lions the plural of?
Marsupial lions is the plural of marsupial lion.

Words near marsupial lions in the dictionary

  1. marsupial bone
  2. marsupial bones
  3. marsupial frog
  4. marsupial frogs
  5. marsupial lion
  6. marsupial lions
  7. marsupial mice
  8. marsupial mole
  9. marsupial moles
  10. marsupial mouse
  11. marsupialian

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