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thylacines

thylacines is the plural of thylacine.

Meaning of thylacine

Noun

thylacine (plural thylacines)

  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

Questions about thylacines

What is thylacines the plural of?
Thylacines is the plural of thylacine.

Words near thylacines in the dictionary

  1. thygmotaxis
  2. Thyia
  3. thyine
  4. thylacinamorphic
  5. thylacine
  6. thylacines
  7. thylacinid
  8. thylacinids
  9. thylacocephalan
  10. thylacocephalans
  11. thylacoid

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