phalanger : Idioms & Phrases
brush-tailed phalanger
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noun bushy-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula.
WordNet
Flying phalanger
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noun nocturnal phalangers that move with gliding leaps using parachute-like folds of skin along the sides of the body
flying opossum; flying squirrel.
WordNet
(Zoöl.) , one of several species of small marsuupials of the generaPetaurus andBelideus , 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 alsosquirrel petaurus andflying squirrel . SeeSugar squirrel .
Webster 1913
genus phalanger
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noun type genus of the family Phalangeridae: cuscuses