marsupial lion

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marsupial lion (plural marsupial lions)

  1. A carnivorous marsupial that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene, of the extinct genus Thylacoleo
    • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 225:
      The first Australians, I reflected, will have known real monsters such as the Thylacaleo, or ‘marsupial lion’.

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