flying lemur

What does flying lemur mean?

flying lemur means "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".

What is another word for flying lemur?

Close synonyms include flying cat, colugo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flying lemur a common word?

flying lemur is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flying lemur come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.