flying phalanger

What does flying phalanger mean?

flying phalanger means "nocturnal phalangers that move with gliding leaps using parachute-like folds of skin along the sides of the body".

What is another word for flying phalanger?

Close synonyms include flying opossum, flying squirrel. 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 phalanger a common word?

flying phalanger 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 phalanger come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.