| NOUN | animal | phalanger, opossum, possum | small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails |
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| Meaning | small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails. | |
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| Synonyms | opossum, possum | |
| Member of | Phalangeridae, family Phalangeridae | phalangers |
| Narrower | brush-tailed phalanger, Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
| cuscus | woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia | |
| flying phalanger, flying opossum, flying squirrel | nocturnal phalangers that move with gliding leaps using parachute-like folds of skin along the sides of the body | |
| koala, koala bear, kangaroo bear, native bear, Phascolarctos cinereus | sluggish / sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat | |
| Broader | marsupial, pouched mammal | mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried |
| Spanish | phalangeriformes, phalanger | |
| Catalan | phalanger, possum | |
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