thylacine
Meaning of thylacine
noun
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 is probably now extinct.
mid 19th century: from modern Latin Thylacinus (genus name), from Greek thulakos ‘pouch’.
Information about thylacine
- It is a name.
- The plural form of thylacine is: thylacines.
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Hyphenation of thylacine
thy-lacine
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- thylacine is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with thylacine
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