HyperDic: pen-tail

English > 1 sense of the word pen-tail:
NOUNanimalpen-tail, pentail, pen-tailed tree shrewbrown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third
English > pen-tail: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningbrown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia.
Synonymspentail, pen-tailed tree shrew
Member ofPtilocercus, genus Ptilocercuspentails
Broadertree shrewinsectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout
Spanishpentail
Catalanpentail

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