marsupial lion

English

Noun

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’.

Translations

Thylacoleo

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 袋獅／袋狮 (dàishī)

• Japanese: 袋獅 (フクロライオン, fukuroraion)