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dasyure Zool.|ˈdæsɪ(j)ʊə(r)|
[ad. mod.L. dasyūrus, f. Gr. δασύ-ς rough, hairy + οὐρά tail.]
An animal of the genus Dasyurus or subfamily Dasyurinæ, comprising the small carnivorous marsupials of Australia and Tasmania, also called ‘brush-tailed opossums’ or ‘native cats’.
1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 261/2 The Opossums resemble in their dentition the Bandicoots more than the Dasyures. 1881Times 28 Jan. 3/4 The smaller pouched herbivores have their slayers in the ‘native devil’ (sarcophilus), and in the dasyures or native cats.
Hence dasyˈurine a. Zool., belonging to the subfamily Dasyurinæ.
1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 260/1 In..its hinder feet Myrmecobius resembles the Dasyurine family. |