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PENTAIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pentail mean?
• PENTAIL (noun)
The noun PENTAIL has 1 sense:
1. brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia
Familiarity information: PENTAIL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
pen-tail; pen-tailed tree shrew; pentail
Hypernyms ("pentail" is a kind of...):
tree shrew (insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout)
Holonyms ("pentail" is a member of...):
genus Ptilocercus; Ptilocercus (pentails)
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