pentail

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pentail has 1 sense

pentail(n = noun.animal) pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew - brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia; Array

is a kind of tree shrew

is a member of genus ptilocercus, ptilocercus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

pentail, n.

A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip. [1913 Webster]

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