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PTILOCERCUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pentails

Synonyms:

genus Ptilocercus; Ptilocercus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Ptilocercus" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Ptilocercus"):

pen-tail; pen-tailed tree shrew; pentail (brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia)

Holonyms ("Ptilocercus" is a member of...):

family Tupaiidae; Tupaiidae (tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates)

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