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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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

phalanger n 1: small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails [syn: phalanger, opossum, possum]