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PTILOCERCUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ptilocercus mean?
• PTILOCERCUS (noun)
The noun PTILOCERCUS has 1 sense:
1. pentails
Familiarity information: PTILOCERCUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pentails
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Ptilocercus; Ptilocercus
Hypernyms ("Ptilocercus" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "Ptilocercus"):
pen-tail; pen-tailed tree shrew; pentail (brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia)
Holonyms ("Ptilocercus" is a member of...):
family Tupaiidae; Tupaiidae (tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates)
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