marsupial lion
English
Noun
marsupial lion (plural marsupial lions)
- A carnivorous marsupial that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene, of the extinct genus Thylacoleo
- 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage 1998, p. 225:
- The first Australians, I reflected, will have known real monsters such as the Thylacaleo, or ‘marsupial lion’.
- 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage 1998, p. 225:
Translations
Thylacoleo
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