tasmanian devil

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   small ferocious carnivorous marsupial having a mostly black coat and long tail

   Synonymsursine dasyureSarcophilus hariisi

   Broaderdasyurid marsupial

   Part ofSarcophilus

Questions about tasmanian devil

What does tasmanian devil mean?

tasmanian devil means "small ferocious carnivorous marsupial having a mostly black coat and long tail".

What is another word for tasmanian devil?

Close synonyms include ursine dasyure, Sarcophilus hariisi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tasmanian devil a common word?

tasmanian devil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.