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Flying phalanger is a noun.
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WHAT DOES FLYING PHALANGER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

flying phalanger

Petaurus

The genus Petaurus contains flying phalangers or wrist-winged gliders, a group of arboreal marsupials. There are six species, sugar glider, squirrel glider, mahogany glider, northern glider, yellow-bellied glider and Biak glider, and are native to Australia or New Guinea. Flying phalangers are typically nocturnal, most being small, and have folds of loose skin running from the wrists to the ankles. They use this skin to glide from tree to tree by jumping and holding out their limbs spread-eagle. They are able to glide for distances over 140 metres. Beside the distinctive skin folds, flying phalangers also have large, forward-facing eyes, short faces, and long flat tails which are used as rudders while gliding. All are omnivores, and eat tree sap, gum, nectar, pollen, and insects, along with manna and honeydew. Most flying phalangers appear to be solitary, though the yellow-bellied glider and sugar glider are both known to live in groups.

Definition of flying phalanger in the English dictionary

The definition of flying phalanger in the dictionary is any nocturnal arboreal phalanger of the genus Petaurus, of E Australia and New Guinea, having black-striped greyish fur and moving with gliding leaps using folds of skin between the hind limbs and forelimbs Also called: glider.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLYING PHALANGER

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flying wing

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLYING PHALANGER

anger
arranger
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Boulanger
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danger
dog in the manger
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etranger
exchanger
finger
ganger
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handlanger
hanger
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ranger
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Stavanger
stranger

Synonyms and antonyms of flying phalanger in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «flying phalanger» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

飞phalanger
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Phalanger volar
570 millions of speakers

English

flying phalanger
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उड़ान phalanger
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

تحلق phalanger
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

летать Phalanger
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

phalanger voando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উড়ন্ত জাহাজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Phalanger volant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Phalanger terbang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fliegen phalanger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フクロモモンガ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비행 phalanger
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Phalanger mabur
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

phalanger bay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பறக்கும் வளைவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उडाण फलांजर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Uçan phalanger
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

volare phalanger
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

latające Phalanger
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

літати Phalanger
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Phalanger zbor
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

φέρουν phalanger
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vlieg phalanger
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flygande phalanger
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

flying phalanger
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLYING PHALANGER»

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Australian Mammal Society
The production of ultrasonic sounds by laboratory rats and other mammals. Science 119: 808-9. BRAZENOR. C. W., 1934. Field notes on the Yel- low-bellied Flying Phalanger, Petaurus australis Shaw. Ausl. Zoo/. 8: 54-5. CALABY, J. H., 1966.
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Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the ...
The marsupial glider Ptaurus bre- viceps, often called the flying phalanger, has a broad fold of skin along each side of the body, from wrist to ankle, and a bushy tail, just like American flying squirrels, which are placental mammals (rodents).
Tim M. Berra, 1990
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The animal kingdom. Transl. [With] Plates
In the front there are two above and one below, less complicated. By this structure they are rendered still more frugiverous than all the preceding species. Ph. petaurus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., pi. cxii; White, Voy. 288. (The Great Flying Phalanger).
Georges Léopold C.F.D. Cuvier (baron de.), 1834
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Zoological Results of the Denison-Crockett South Pacific ...
A NEW RACE OF THE NEW GUINEA SHORT-HEADED FLYING PHALANGER FROM BIAK ISLAND By Frederick A. Ulmer, Jr. Dc]Mirtmenl, of Mammals, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia During his stay on Biak Island 1 in  ...
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals
Petaurus 396 e Greater Glider (ANZ); Greater Gliding Possum; Greater Gliding Opossum; Dusky Gliding Opossum; Greater Flying Phalanger; Dusky Glider; Dusky Gliding Possum d Großflugbeutler;Riesenflugbeutler; Riesengleitbeutler f  ...
Murray Wrobel, 2006
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Animals
T" 3 GREAT PLYING-PHALANGER ani—Hlasrm'du "Ml—Qltmldld The greet flying-phalanger (Pl when), or flying opoaanm of Queenaland and the colony at Victoria, hna n membrene like that of the common flying nqnirreln but not l0 wide. and ...
Rice,Wallace, 2013
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The Chambers Dictionary
... equipped for rapid movements, used to harass an enemy; flying phalanger a general name for animals similar to the phalangers with a parachute of skin between fore and hind legs; flying pickets mobile pickets available for reinforcing the ...
Allied Chambers, 1998
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Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive Management: Biology ...
Fleay, D. (1932) The lesser flying phalanger (Sugar squirrel). Victorian Naturalist 49: 97–101. Fleay, D. (1932) The pigmy flying possum. Victorian Naturalist 49: 165–71. Fleay, D. (1933) The greater flying phalanger. Victorian Naturalist 50: ...
Stephen Jackson, 2007
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Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
The smell is dreadful. The camp extends for a length of three miles. There must be millions upon millions of them.” Flying-Mouse, 11. See Opossummouse and fi7_yz'ng-P/zalanger. Flying-Phalanger, n. included in the class of P/ialanger (q.v. ).
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
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The animal kingdom, with additional descriptions by E. ...
The Great Flying Phalanger, {Did. Petaurus, Shaw,) Gen. Zool. pi. cxn. White, Voy . 288. Resembles the taguan and the galeopithecus in size. Its fur is soft and copious, its tail long and compressed or flattened. They are of different shades of  ...
Georges Léopold C.F.D. Cuvier (baron de.), Edward Griffith, 1827

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLYING PHALANGER»

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Winter Olympics 2014: Boarders, bobs and bowling on ice - what to …
Hurl yourself down a 90m ramp that rises sharply at the end and then hold yourself motionless and glide through the air like a flying phalanger ... «The Independent, Feb 14»
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The Daily Cute: This Adorable Puppy Is Not a Metaphor
Detective honors to Daily Cute reader Dave for correctly (as far as I can tell) identifying a flying phalanger when he saw one, and to Edward for ... «PARADE, May 13»
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Why Koalas Have Human Fingerprints
The flying squirrel has its marsupial equivalent in the flying phalanger. The anteater meets its match in the long-tongued ant-eating numbat. «io9, Aug 12»

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