Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or having the characters of the Dasyurinœ or Dasyuridæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Resembling or pertaining to the
dasyures .
Etymologies
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dasyure + -ine
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Examples
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1895 OW 1886 OW Fully fifty-four of my discoveries have to do with land animals: alcine elk, moose W dasyurine dasyure antelopine antelope W (1839-47) OW aspine asp 1644 O didelphine opossum bisontine bison 1885 - 1847 OW
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