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Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
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phalanger
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phalanger \Pha*lan"ger\, n. [Cf. F. phalanger. See Phalanx .] (Zo["o]l.) Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista , Cuscus , Petaurus , and other genera of the family Phalangistid[ae] . They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral ...
Wiktionary
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n. An arboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, native to Australia.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails [syn: opossum , possum ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
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Usage examples of phalanger.
I was so ashamed to see: even the dying bandicoot is forced to endure the antics of the flying phalanger.
They were an odd assortment, from the more familiar rats and mice to bandicoots and phalangers.
He walked a great way in the darkness, and that part of his mind which was free to be astonished was astonished by the number of nocturnal animals he heard and occasionally saw in the faint moonlight, and they so near the settlement: phalangers, bandicoots, a koala, wombats.