flying phalanger

noun

variants or flying opossum

: any of various small phalangers of the Australian region (especially of the genera Petaurus and Acrobates) that have a wide membrane like that of the flying squirrels connecting the forelegs and hind legs and similarly used

called also flying squirrel, squirrel

compare sugar squirrel

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