FLYING CAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flying cat mean? 

• FLYING CAT (noun)
  The noun FLYING CAT has 2 senses:

1. arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps

2. East Indian flying squirrel

  Familiarity information: FLYING CAT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLYING CAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

colugo; flying cat; flying lemur

Hypernyms ("flying cat" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flying cat"):

Cynocephalus variegatus (a variety of flying lemur)

Holonyms ("flying cat" is a member of...):

Cynocephalus; genus Cynocephalus (type genus of the family Cynocephalidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

East Indian flying squirrel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flying cat; flying marmot; Petaurista petaurista; taguan

Hypernyms ("flying cat" is a kind of...):

Asiatic flying squirrel (nocturnal rodent of Asia having furry folds of skin between forelegs and hind legs enabling it to move by gliding leaps)

Holonyms ("flying cat" is a member of...):

genus Petaurista; Petaurista (very large Asiatic flying squirrels)