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pentail
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
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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