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. Tasmanian devil a bearlike nocturnal flesh-eating marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, now found only in Tasmania.
[ Tasmania f. A. J. Tasman, Du. navigator d. 1659, who discovered the island ]