tasmanian

• HYPHEN: Tas=ma=ni=an

CIDE DICTIONARY

tasmanian, a. 

 Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land.  [1913 Webster]

Tasmanian cider tree. (Bot.) See the Note under Eucalyptus. -- Tasmanian devil. (Zoöl.) See under Devil. -- Tasmanian wolf (Zoöl.), a savage carnivorous marsupial; -- called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under Wolf.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tasmanian, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a native of Tasmania, an island State of Australia.
2 a person of Tasmanian descent.
--adj. of or relating to Tasmania.

Idiom

Tasmanian devil a bearlike nocturnal flesh-eating marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, now found only in Tasmania.

Etymology

Tasmania f. A. J. Tasman, Du. navigator d. 1659, who discovered the island