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Definition of Tasmanian wolf

1. Noun. Rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct.

Definition of Tasmanian wolf

1. Noun. thylacine ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tasmanian Wolf

Literary usage of Tasmanian wolf

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

1. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"SPECIES OF LARGE MAMMALS ALMOST EXTINCT THE THYLACINE or Tasmanian wolf, (Thylacinus cynocephalus).— Four years ago, when Mr. WHD Le Souef, Director of the ..."

2. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"In the earlier days of the colony, the Tasmanian wolf was of very ... The home of the Tasmanian wolf is always made in some deep recess of the ri away from ..."

3. The Romance of Savage Life: Describing the Life of Primitive Man, His by George Francis Scott Elliot (1908)
"... meal of a Tasmanian—Wolf-taming—Arrows made of broken bottles—Tools amongst the Onas—Religion and morality in ..."

4. The Practical Teacher by Joseph Hughes (1883)
"Indeed, but for the tail, which is long and tapering, the Tasmanian wolf might really be imagined to belong to the group of animals from which it derives ..."

5. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1892)
"In particular, while the dogs all have on each side of the upper jaw four pre-molars and two molars, the Tasmanian wolf has three pre- molars and four ..."

6. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1892)
"In particular, while the dogs all have on each side of the upper jaw four pre-molars and two molars, the Tasmanian wolf has three pre- molars and four ..."

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