FAMILY PHALANGERIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Phalangeridae mean? 

• FAMILY PHALANGERIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY PHALANGERIDAE has 1 sense:

1. phalangers; koalas

  Familiarity information: FAMILY PHALANGERIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PHALANGERIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Phalangers; koalas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Phalangeridae; Phalangeridae

Hypernyms ("family Phalangeridae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Phalangeridae"):

opossum; phalanger; possum (small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails)

genus Phalanger (type genus of the family Phalangeridae: cuscuses)

genus Trichosurus; Trichosurus; genus Petaurus; Petaurus; Acrobates; genus Acrobates (a genus of Phalangeridae)

genus Phascolarctos; Phascolarctos (koalas)

Holonyms ("family Phalangeridae" is a member of...):

Marsupialia; order Marsupialia (coextensive with the subclass Metatheria)