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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia;
[syn: pentail, pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pentail \Pen"tail`\, n. (Zool.) A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pen-tail n 1: brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia [syn: pentail, pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew]