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# thylacine

noun (a thylacine, thylacines)

«thylacine» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

The Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, a striped, dog-like marsupial (pouched animal) that lived in Australia and Tasmania and is believed to have died out; the last known one died in a zoo in Hobart nearly a hundred years ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science and history lessons it is a sad example of extinction caused by hunting, habitat loss and disease. In Australia it is a symbol of Tasmania. Phrases: Tasmanian tiger, last thylacine.

### Examples

- The thylacine had stripes on its back like a tiger. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x1)
- The last known thylacine died in a zoo in Hobart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x2)
- Thylacines carried their babies in a pouch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x3)
- Farmers hunted thylacines because they thought they killed sheep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x4)
- Some people say they have seen a thylacine, but nobody has proved it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x5)
- Scientists study old thylacine bones and films. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Pronounced THY-luh-seen. It was not a real tiger or wolf; it was a marsupial. Claims of sightings are unproven.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «thylacine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«thylacine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/thylacine.html) on Mova free.