Definition of Sarcophilus

1. Noun. Tasmanian devil.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarcophilus

Sarcocephalus diderrichii
Sarcocephalus esculentus
Sarcocephalus latifolius
Sarcochilus
Sarcochilus falcatus
Sarcocystis bovihominis
Sarcocystis fusiformis
Sarcocystis hominis
Sarcocystis lindemanni
Sarcocystis miescheriana
Sarcocystis suihominis
Sarcocystis tenella
Sarcodes
Sarcodes sanguinea
Sarcophaga carnaria
Sarcophilus (current term)
Sarcophilus hariisi
Sarcopsylla penetrans
Sarcopsyllidae
Sarcoptes
Sarcoptes scabiei
Sarcoptidae
Sarcorhamphus
Sarcorhamphus papa
Sarcoscypha coccinea
Sarcoscyphaceae
Sarcosomataceae
Sarcosporidia
Sarcostemma
Sarcostemma acidum

Literary usage of Sarcophilus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Among the Marsupialia the Tasmania n devil (Sarcophilus) gives a very good idea of a generalized mammalian brain, and shows a large development of the parts ..."

2. Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations by Richard Owen (1871)
"It presents the same convexity from before backward as in Sarcophilus and Thylacinus, but is relatively less extended transversely, and is rather more ..."

3. An Introduction to the Mammalian Dentition by Thomas Wingate Todd (1918)
"... have attained some similarity in tooth form by quite dissimilar stages. (Even their ancestors are only distantly related.) Sarcophilus is a modified ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1879)
"Sarcophilus, or " flesh-lover," designates tlic mischievous, ... Of Sarcophilus, of which the present ursine kind might be matched by a jackal, ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute by Royal Commonwealth Society (1879)
"Sarcophilus, or " flesh-lover," designates the mischievous, untameable brute which might weigh down a jackal, though of more compact and robust build. ..."

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