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thylacine

French, noun\ti.la.sin\

thylacine is a French masculine noun meaning “thylacine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mammifère marsupial carnivore de la taille d’un loup, au pelage tigré. L’espèce est considérée comme éteinte…”.

What does thylacine mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinethylacine

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Mammifère marsupial carnivore de la taille d’un loup, au pelage tigré. L’espèce est considérée comme éteinte depuis 1936.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of thylacine

  • thylacines plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce thylacine?

  • \ti.la.sin\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to thylacine

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is thylacine in French?

thylacine appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).