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noun
An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae of the order Dermoptera, native to Southeast Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: flying lemur, flying cat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
Narrower terms: Cynocephalus variegatus
History
Unknown, possibly from a Malayo-Polynesian language.
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