Crossword clues for taguan
taguan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taguan \Tag"u*an\, n. [From the native name in the East Indies.] (Zo["o]l.) A large flying squirrel ( Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
Wiktionary
n. flying squirrel
WordNet
n. East Indian flying squirrel [syn: flying marmot, flying cat, Petaurista petaurista]
Wikipedia
Taguan may refer to:
- Flying squirrel (the animal)
- taguan, a traditional game of hide-and-seek, as played in the Philippines
- Taguan Mountain, a mountain in Taiwan
Usage examples of "taguan".
The Taguans of his own time had strictly forbidden any outsiders to visit the ruins, keeping them off-limits to archaeologists and other visitors ever since the Vulcans conducted their own ill-fated dig on the site over a decade before.
Before the Taguans decided to deny the site to offworlders, there had been at least 947 known excavations, the first one dating back to 22,000 years ago, almost 18,000 years before the rise of human civilization on Earth.
Whether the Taguans of his own time were actually descended from those who had left their presence marked upon these cliffs, as they steadfastly maintained, or whether they represented a subsequent stage of immigration or evolution, as suggested by the findings of the Vulcan expedition of 2351, was a question greatly debated in the archaeological community.
Indeed, it was this very issue that had inspired the modern Taguans to close off the ruins to outsiders, in an attempt to protect their vaunted heritage from the “lies and fallacies” of non-Taguan researchers.
The Taguans he knew were characterized by turquoise skin and a heavy layer of downy white fur.
Crystalline plates and teacup crashed onto the carpet, splintering into dozens of tiny shards and soiling the Taguan carpet with a mixture of tea, crumbs, and honey.
Whether the Taguans of his own time were actually descended from those who had left their presence marked upon these cliffs, as they steadfastly maintained, or whether they represented a subsequent stage of immigration oI evolution, as suggested by the findings of the Vulcan expedition of 2351, was a question greatly debated in the archaeological community.
Indeed, it was this very issue that had inspired the modern Taguans to close off the ruins to outsiders, in an attempt to protect their vaunted heritage from the "lies and fallacies" of non-Taguan researchers.