Definition of "dasyurid" [dasyurid]

• Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Many other species, such as dasyurid mammals, also undergo dramatic population increases during better seasons, followed by population crashes in drier times when they possibly retreat to refuge areas."
• "Many species, such as dasyurid carnivores, bats, owls, and cockatoos are particularly dependent on large areas of old growth eucalypt forest."
• "Around 1910, a distemper-like disease reportedly struck among several smaller predators, the eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus, also known as the native cat) and the spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), two species within the dasyurid family of marsupials."