FLYING LEMUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flying lemur mean? 

• FLYING LEMUR (noun)
  The noun FLYING LEMUR has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: FLYING LEMUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLYING LEMUR (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

colugo; flying cat; flying lemur

Hypernyms ("flying lemur" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

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

Cynocephalus variegatus (a variety of flying lemur)

Holonyms ("flying lemur" is a member of...):

Cynocephalus; genus Cynocephalus (type genus of the family Cynocephalidae)