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AMERICAN FLYING SQUIRREL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

New World flying squirrels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("American flying squirrel" is a kind of...):

squirrel (a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American flying squirrel"):

Glaucomys volans; southern flying squirrel (small large-eyed nocturnal flying squirrel of eastern United States)

Glaucomys sabrinus; northern flying squirrel (large flying squirrel; chiefly of Canada)

Holonyms ("American flying squirrel" is a member of...):

genus Glaucomys; Glaucomys (New World flying squirrels)

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