thylacine
/ˈθaɪləˌsaɪn/noun
1- a doglike carnivorous marsupial with stripes across the rump, found only in Tasmania. There have been no confirmed sightings since one was captured in 1933, and it may now be extinct.袋狼。亦称TASMANIAN WOLF.
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- Thylacinus cynocephalus, family Thylacinidae.拉丁名Thylacinus cynocephalus,袋狼科。
词源
mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin Thylacinus (genus name)， from Greek thulakos 'pouch'.