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carnifex

American  
[kahr-ni-feks] / ˈkɑr nɪˌfɛks /

noun

carnifexes, plural carnifices plural
  1. Roman History. a public executioner.


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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

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

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

"Hence—" "It is a phanaeus carnifex," said the professor positively.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry

Under each of these was a subordinate class, whose office was to kill, prepare, &c. called lanii, and sometimes carnifices.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 by Various

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