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Tasmanian   Listen
adjective
Tasmanian  adj.  Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land.
Tasmanian cider tree. (Bot.) See the Note under Eucalyptus.
Tasmanian devil. (Zool.) See under Devil.
Tasmanian wolf (Zool.), a savage carnivorous marsupial; called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under Wolf.





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"Tasmanian" Quotes from Famous Books



... if it be admitted that nouns preceded verbs as parts of speech, which will hardly be disputed, these passages show how the semi-abstract adjectives and verbs were gradually formed from the names of concrete nouns. Of the language of the now extinct Tasmanian aborigines it is stated: "Their speech was so imperfectly constituted that there was no settled order or arrangement of words in the sentence, the sense being eked out by face, manner and gesture, so that they could ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell
... we steamed in nearly a calm sea close along the Tasmanian coast and through the Bass Straits, sighting land all the way from thence. Tasmania presented quite an English appearance after New Zealand, and we could trace the neat towns and well-wooded country dotted with homesteads ...
— Five Years in New Zealand - 1859 to 1864 • Robert B. Booth


Words linked to "Tasmanian" :   Tasmanian devil, Tasmanian tiger, Tasmania


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