thylacineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).

発音

• IPA: /ˈθailəsiːn/

名詞

thylacine (plural thylacines)

1. A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Moment Under the Moment”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     […] high up on an overhanging rock, perhaps twenty feet above the ground, a ghostly white thylacine was clearly visible. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, have been extinct on the mainland of Australia for at least two thousand years.

同意語

• (carnivorous mammal): Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, Tasmanian hyena, Kaparunina

参考

• sarcophile
• sarcophiline
• Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil)

アナグラム

• Telychian