Search Result for "phalanger":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails;
[syn: phalanger, opossum, possum]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Phalanger \Pha*lan"ger\, n. [Cf. F. phalanger. See Phalanx.] (Zool.) 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 parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying. [1913 Webster]
