GENUS PTILOCERCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Ptilocercus mean? 

• GENUS PTILOCERCUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS PTILOCERCUS has 1 sense:

1. pentails

  Familiarity information: GENUS PTILOCERCUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PTILOCERCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pentails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Ptilocercus; Ptilocercus

Hypernyms ("genus Ptilocercus" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Ptilocercus"):

pen-tail; pen-tailed tree shrew; pentail (brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia)

Holonyms ("genus Ptilocercus" is a member of...):

family Tupaiidae; Tupaiidae (tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates)