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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of Tupaiidæ or elephant-shrews, containing a single species, P. lowei, of Borneo, having a long tail furnished with distichous hairs toward the end, like a pen or feather, whence the name; the pentails.

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  • noun pentails

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