GENUS PHALANGER

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Meaning:

Type genus of the family Phalangeridae: cuscuses

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Phalanger" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Phalanger"):

cuscus (woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia)

Holonyms ("genus Phalanger" is a member of...):

family Phalangeridae; Phalangeridae (phalangers; koalas)

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