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/ˈθailəsiːn/ · noun
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.
Use thylacine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Thylacine means A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct..
Common synonyms include Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, Tasmanian hyena, Kaparunina.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…]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.
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