Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the large Asiatic and East Indian flying-squirrels of the genus Pteromys, in a strict sense, as P. petaurista.
- noun A flying-phalanger or petaurist. See cut under
Petaurista .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large flying squirrel (
Pteromys petuarista ). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
flying squirrel
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun East Indian flying squirrel
Etymologies
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From the native name in the East Indies.
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The species mentioned in the text may have been the sciurus petaurista of Linnaeus, the taguan, flying-cat, flying-hare, or Indian flying-squirrel of various authors.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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Rational Review 2009
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