Worthless Word for the Day

[teapeebubbles]

the worthless word for the day is: thylacine

[fr. NL Thylacinus, genus of marsupials,
from Greek thylakos sack, pouch]
the Tasmanian Wolf: a somewhat doglike
carnivorous marsupial that formerly inhabited
Tasmania but is now considered extinct --
called also Tasmanian Tiger

""I managed to get DH-82 to do a few tricks."
Dh-82 was [Mum's] rescue thylacine. Training
a usually unbelievably torpid thylacine to do
anything except eat or sleep on command
was almost front page news."
- Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots