HyperDic: pen-tailed_tree_shrew

English > 1 sense of the expression *pen-tailed tree shrew*:
NOUN	animal	pen-tailed tree shrew, pentail, pen-tail	brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third

English > *pen-tailed tree shrew*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia.
Synonyms	pentail, pen-tail
Member of	Ptilocercus, genus Ptilocercus	pentails
Broader	tree shrew	insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout
Spanish	pentail
Catalan	pentail