Wynyardia

noun

Wyn·​yar·​dia

wə̇nˈyärdēə

: a genus of Tasmanian Pliocene or Miocene primitive fossil phalangers sometimes regarded as ancestral to the modern Australian opossums

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Wynyard, town on northwestern coast of Tasmania + New Latin -ia

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