NOUN | animal | pentail, pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third |
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Meaning | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia. | |
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Synonyms | pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew | |
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 |
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