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pentail |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pentail \Pen"tail`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A peculiar insectivore ({Ptilocercus Lowii}) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pentail n : brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third of Malaysia [syn: {pen-tailed tree shrew}]
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