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Tasmanian   Listen
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Tasmanian  adj.  Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land.
Tasmanian cider tree. (Bot.) See the Note under Eucalyptus.
Tasmanian devil. (Zool.) See under Devil.
Tasmanian wolf (Zool.), a savage carnivorous marsupial; called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under Wolf.






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"Tasmanian" Quotes from Famous Books



... proper term of comparison is the lowest type of human being known to us, since the higher types of living men have confessedly evolved from the lower. But even the lowest type of existing or recent savage is not the lowest level of humanity. Whether or no the Tasmanian or the Yahgan is a primitive remnant of the Old Stone Age, we have a far lower depth in the Java race. What we have first to do is to explain the advance to that level, in the course of many hundreds of thousands of years: a period fully a hundred times as long as the whole history of civilisation. ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

... marsupial is allowed to live out of Australia, and that is the opossum; but, then, the opossum is no fool, and can take care of itself in the outer world. Here at the Zoo, besides the opossum, we have kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, wombats, and certain other eccentric things, including the Tasmanian devil; but none is a bigger fool than the biggest marsupial, the kangaroo. This is natural, because he has most room to store his imbecility. The kangaroo's general weakness of character is visible all over him. He has never quite made ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various



Words linked to "Tasmanian" :   Tasmania, Tasmanian devil, Tasmanian wolf



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