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单词 tasmanian wolf
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Tasmanian wolf
Of or pertaining to Tasmania in Australasia. In names of animals, plants, etc., native to Tasmania, as Tasmanian devil (see devil n. 6), Tasmanian wolf (see wolf n.). Also Tasmanian cranberry, Tasmanian currant, Tasmanian honeysuckle, Tasmanian ironwood, etc.: see the nouns. Tasmanian pepper n. = pepper tree n. 1, Tasmannia aromatica (Miller Plant-n.); also Victorian pepper.
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Tasmanian1851
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 998/3 Many Tasmanian plants bloom throughout the winter months.
1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life ii. v. 104 ‘And what books do you read?’.. ‘“Blair's Sermons,” and “The Tasmanian Almanack”.’
1920 Glasgow Herald 23 July 6 He..attended the royal meeting of the Tasmanian Racing Club in the afternoon.
1964 W. L. Goodman Hist. Woodworking Tools 157 The Sanderson Brothers & Newbould catalogue has a variation of this called the ‘Tasmanian’ tooth.
1975 Listener 7 Aug. 172 The remnants of the four Tasmanian tribes, the last of the 5,000 Tasmanians who were there when the Europeans landed.
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Tasmanian wolf
a. (a) In South Africa, a hyena: see also aardwolf n., strand-wolf n. at strand n.1 Compounds 3, tiger-wolf n. at tiger n. Compounds 2a. (b) A Tasmanian marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus: see also zebra wolf n. at zebra n. Compounds 2b. Frequently as Tasmanian wolf; = thylacine n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > [noun] > family Hyaenidae (hyena) > genus Crocuta (spotted hyaena)
tiger-wolf1731
wolf1815
pied hyena1865
the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Dasyuridae > subfamily Thylacinae (thylacine)
zebra opossum1808
zebra wolf1808
tiger1829
hyena1832
thylacine1838
wolf1891
1595 T. Johnson Cornucopiæ sig. B4 A certaine Wolfe called Hyena.]
1815 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. II. 15 The spotted hyena, hyæna crocuta, is here called simply the wolf.
1891 Guide Zool. Gard., Melbourne In this cage are two marsupial wolves, Thylacinus cynocephalus, or Tasmanian tigers as they are commonly called.
1908 H. R. Haggard Ghost Kings iv. 53 She saw the hyenas, two of them, wolves as they are called in South Africa.
1941 E. Troughton Furred Animals Austral. 50 (heading) Tasmanian wolf or tiger.
1966 G. Durrell Two in Bush vi. 178 The predators are represented by such things as the Tasmanian Wolf—not a true wolf, of course, but a marsupial, looking remarkably like its counterpart.
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