carnifex
Americannoun
plural
carnifexes, carnificesExample Sentences
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It is thought to have shared a common ancestor with modern-day wombats, and also looked a bit like a marsupial lion known as Thylacoleo carnifex, researcher Arthur Crichton said.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2023
This would have left their predators, such as the marsupial lion T. carnifex, vulnerable to extinction.
From Nature • Oct. 22, 2018
Researchers have long puzzled over precisely what T. carnifex ate, and debated the cause of its extinction.
From Nature • Oct. 22, 2018
Australia’s largest-ever marsupial predator, Thylacoleo carnifex, probably dined on creatures from densely forested environments, according to a recent analysis.
From Nature • Oct. 22, 2018
They ought not, either in humanity or policy, to wait till the voice of the nation calls to them, as Mecænas to Augustus, "Surge tandem carnifex!"
From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott, Walter, Sir
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