Flying phalanger Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun nocturnal phalangers that move with gliding leaps using parachute-like folds of skin along the sides of the body
    flying opossum; flying squirrel.

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Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.), one of several species of small marsuupials of the genera Petaurus and Belideus, of Australia and New Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying squirrels. The sugar squirrel (B. sciureus), and the ariel (B. ariel), are the best known; called also squirrel petaurus and flying squirrel. See Sugar squirrel.

Webster 1913