AMERICAN FLYING SQUIRREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American flying squirrel mean? 

• AMERICAN FLYING SQUIRREL (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN FLYING SQUIRREL has 1 sense:

1. New World flying squirrels

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN FLYING SQUIRREL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN FLYING SQUIRREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

New World flying squirrels

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("American flying squirrel" is a kind of...):

squirrel (a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American flying squirrel"):

Glaucomys volans; southern flying squirrel (small large-eyed nocturnal flying squirrel of eastern United States)

Glaucomys sabrinus; northern flying squirrel (large flying squirrel; chiefly of Canada)

Holonyms ("American flying squirrel" is a member of...):

genus Glaucomys; Glaucomys (New World flying squirrels)