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From being a striped large-cat-like cryptid animal found in Queensland, Australia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A cryptid, which may be a relict Thylacoleo (marsupial lion) or mainland variant of the Thylacinus (Tasmanian wolf and Tasmanian tiger) Full definition →
From being a striped large-cat-like cryptid animal found in Queensland, Australia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.