thylacine

noun

Etymology: From translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).

1. A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.

   “[…]high up on an overhanging rock, perhaps twenty feet above the ground, a ghostly white thylacine was clearly visible. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, have been extinct on the mainland of Australia for at least two thousand years.”