thylacine


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
thylacine /ˈθʌɪləsiːn, -sʌɪn, -sɪn/
noun a doglike carnivorous Tasmanian marsupial with striped hindquarters, probably extinct. [Thylacinus cynocephalus.]
– origin C19: from mod. L. Thylacinus, from Gk thulakos ‘pouch’.
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