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# thylacine

«thylacine» in Mova's school dictionary: **The Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, a striped…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a thylacine, thylacines)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#m1)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x1)
- The last known thylacine died in a zoo in Hobart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x2)
- Thylacines carried their babies in a pouch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x3)
- Farmers hunted thylacines because they thought they killed sheep. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/#x5)
- Scientists study old thylacine bones and films. [tree →](https://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [People still report thylacine sightings, but none have been proven.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thylacine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thylacine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.