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BRUSH-TAILED PHALANGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brush-tailed phalanger mean?
• BRUSH-TAILED PHALANGER (noun)
The noun BRUSH-TAILED PHALANGER has 1 sense:
1. bushy-tailed phalanger
Familiarity information: BRUSH-TAILED PHALANGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BRUSH-TAILED PHALANGER (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bushy-tailed phalanger
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
brush-tailed phalanger; Trichosurus vulpecula
Hypernyms ("brush-tailed phalanger" is a kind of...):
opossum; phalanger; possum (small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails)
Holonyms ("brush-tailed phalanger" is a member of...):
genus Trichosurus; Trichosurus (a genus of Phalangeridae)
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