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flying fish |
flying fox |
flying gecko |
flying gurnard |
flying jib |
flying lemur
| flying lizard
| flying mare
| flying marmot
| flying mouse
| flying opossum
flying lemur
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flying lemur has 1 sense
- flying lemur(n = noun.animal) colugo, flying cat - arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps; Array is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal
is a member of cynocephalus, genus cynocephalus
has particulars: cynocephalus variegatus
CIDE DICTIONARY
flying lemur,
either of two nocturnal lemurlike mammals inhabiting the East Indies (Cynocephalus variegatus ) or the Phillipines (Cynocephalus volans ) having broad folds of skin between the fore and hind limbs on both sides of the body allowing them to make long gliding leaps; they have been classed in the separate order Dermoptera . They are arboreal and have become rare. [PJC]
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