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

  • 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

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 1977

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