carnifex
Americannoun
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carnifexes,
plural
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carnifices
plural
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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
Researchers have long puzzled over precisely what T. carnifex ate, and debated the cause of its extinction.
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
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
My halberdiers and the carnifex alone stood stolidly indifferent.
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini
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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