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AMERICAN FLYING SQUIRREL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
New World flying squirrels
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("American flying squirrel" is a kind of...):
squirrel (a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American flying squirrel"):
Glaucomys volans; southern flying squirrel (small large-eyed nocturnal flying squirrel of eastern United States)
Glaucomys sabrinus; northern flying squirrel (large flying squirrel; chiefly of Canada)
Holonyms ("American flying squirrel" is a member of...):
genus Glaucomys; Glaucomys (New World flying squirrels)
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