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PHALANGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phalanger mean? 

PHALANGER (noun)
  The noun PHALANGER has 1 sense:

1. small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tailsplay

  Familiarity information: PHALANGER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHALANGER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

opossum; phalanger; possum

Hypernyms ("phalanger" is a kind of...):

marsupial; pouched mammal (mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried)

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

cuscus (woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia)

brush-tailed phalanger; Trichosurus vulpecula (bushy-tailed phalanger)

flying opossum; flying phalanger; flying squirrel (nocturnal phalangers that move with gliding leaps using parachute-like folds of skin along the sides of the body)

kangaroo bear; koala; koala bear; native bear; Phascolarctos cinereus (sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark)

Holonyms ("phalanger" is a member of...):

family Phalangeridae; Phalangeridae (phalangers; koalas)


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