| 单词 | flying phalanger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflying phalanger 2. More fully flying phalanger. Any of various small Australasian marsupials of the genera Petaura and Petauroides (family Petauridae), having fur-covered membranes between fore and hind limbs which enable them to make gliding leaps.The flying phalangers were originally included in the family Phalangeridae. ΚΠ 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom II. 71 The Flying Phalangers..Have the skin of the flanks more or less extended between the legs, like the potatouches (flying squirrels) among the rodentia. 1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxiii. 220 Of animals that carried their babies in pouches, of the flying phalanger that ‘flew’ from tree to tree, of plants that ate insects. 1996 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 21 Sept. k3 Bats are the world's only mammals capable of sustaining true flight—flying lemurs, phalangers..and flying squirrels do not really fly but glide on air currents. < as lemmas |
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