单词 | taguan |
释义 | taguann. The Malayan Flying Squirrel, Pteromys petaurista. (Sometimes applied to other species.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Pteromys (flying squirrel) assapan1612 flying squirrel1624 taguan1792 tuan1846 1792 J. S. Barr tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. VII. 169 It was taken upon the Malabar coast, where they are very common, as well as in the Philippine Islands, and other parts of India, where they are called taguans, or great flying squirrels. 1826 Syd. Smith in Edinb. Rev. Feb. 309 The taguan knocks you down with a blow of his paw, if suddenly interrupted, but will run away if you give him time to do so. 1901 C. J. Cornish Living Animals 149 The taguan, a large squirrel of India, Ceylon and the Malacca forests. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1792 |
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