thylacine
Definitions
A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.
Equivalents
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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.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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