Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

marsupial lion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English

Syllables: mar-su-pi-al lion
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A carnivorous marsupial that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene, of the extinct genus Thylacoleo

Example Sentences

"The first Australians, I reflected, will have known real monsters such as the Thylacaleo, or ‘marsupial lion’."

Inflected Forms

marsupial lions (plural)

Questions

What does marsupial lion mean?: A carnivorous marsupial that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene, of the extinct genus Thylacoleo

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