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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.

Equivalents

Čeština vakovlk
Deutsch Beutelwolf
Ελληνικά θυλακίνος
Español lobo de Tasmania tigre de Tasmania tilacino
Suomi pussihukka
Français thylacine
Gaeilge tílicín
Italiano lupo australe lupo della Tasmania lupo marsupiale tigre della Tasmania tilacino
日本語 袋狼
한국어 틸라신
Nederlands buidelwolf Tasmaanse buidelwolf Tasmaanse tijger
Polski norowiec wilk workowaty
Português lobo-da-tasmânia tigre-da-tasmânia tilacino
Русский су́мчатый волк
Svenska pungvarg tasmansk tiger tasmansk varg

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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See also

thylacinid thylacocephalan thylacoid thylacoleonid thylacomyid thylacosmilid

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