Definition of Thylacinus

1. Noun. Tasmanian wolf.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Thylacinus

Thur
Thurber
Thurgau
Thurgovia
Thuringia
Thuringian
Thuringians
Thurs
Thursday
Thursdays
Thurston
Thurston's geometrization conjecture
Thy
Thy 1 glycoprotein
Thygeson's disease
Thylacinus (current term)
Thylacinus cynocephalus
Thylogale
Thymelaeaceae
Thymelaeales
Thymus serpyllum
Thymus vulgaris
Thyreophora
Thyrsopteris elegans
Thyrza
Thysanocarpus
Thysanosoma actinoides
Ti
Ti.

Literary usage of Thylacinus

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

1. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"Thylacinus spelaeus, Owen :. Syn. Thylacinus major, Owen* ... part of n mandible of Thylacinus cynocephalus. ..."

2. A Natural History of the Mammalia by George Robert Waterhouse (1846)
"The general resemblance which the Thylacinus bears to a Wolf or large Dog, has struck many, and, indeed, has caused it to he, by some, arranged amongst the ..."

3. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the by Oldfield Thomas (1888)
"(2) xp 340 (1825) Th. cynocephalus. Thylacinus, Temm. Man. Mamm. ip 00 (1827) .. Th. cynocephalus. Lycaon, Wayl. Syst. Amph. Smu/. p. 24 (1830) Type. ..."

4. Sketches in Natural History: History of the Mammalia by Charles Knight (1849)
"( Thylacinus Cynocephalus.) This animal, called zebra opossum, and zebra wolf, tiger, hyaena, &c. is a native of Van Diemen's Land, where it is fortunately ..."

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