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Meaning of thylacine | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈθailəsiːn/

Definitions

A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.

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Examples

“[…]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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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