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pentail

noun

brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia

• Syn: ↑pen-tail, ↑pen-tailed tree shrew

• Hypernyms: ↑tree shrew

• Member Holonyms: ↑Ptilocercus, ↑genus Ptilocercus

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun

Etymology: pen (III) + tail

1. also pen-tailed tree shrew \\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷-\ : a tree shrew (genus Ptilocercus) of Malaysia and adjacent islands that is dark brown above and white below and has a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on its distal third

2. also pen-tailed phalanger : a small New Guinea phalanger (genus Distoechurus) related to the mouse opossums but distinguished by a tail fringed with long hairs

3. [by alteration] : pintail 1

Useful english dictionary. 2012.