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Flying Lemur

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Noun

1. colugo, flying cat, flying lemur

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Flying Lemur

see synonyms of flying lemur
noun
either of the two arboreal mammals of the genus Cynocephalus, family Cynocephalidae, and order Dermoptera, of S and SE Asia. They resemble lemurs but have a fold of skin between the limbs enabling movement by gliding leaps
. Also called: colugo

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Flying Lemur

see synonyms of flying lemur
any of an order (Dermoptera) of tree-dwelling mammals of SE Asia, having a broad fold of skin on each side of the body between the forelimbs and the tail, that enables it to make long, gliding leaps

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Flying Lemur

see synonyms of flying lemur
n.
Any of various mammals of the order Dermoptera of Southeast Asia that are sustained in gliding leaps by a wide, fur-covered membrane extending from each side of the body. They are not closely related to true lemurs. Also called colugo.

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