Crossword-Solution: PHALANGER
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| Phalanger | n. | Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidae. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “PHALANGER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Possum's Australian cousin | 1 answer |
| small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN possum | 2 answers |
| KOALA relative | 2 answers |
| Australian marsupial that lives on trees | 3 answers |
| possum | 4 answers |
| Opossum | 6 answers |
| BANDICOOT RELATIVE | 22 answers |
| marsupial | 24 answers |
| Australian marsupial | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PHALANGER (5)
Bartlett has seen many black varieties of the jaguar, leopard, vulpine phalanger, and wombat; and he is certain that all, or nearly all these animals, were males.
Especially as concerning the Marsupialia and Edentata was this the case, and to the end in view he secured living specimens of the Vulpine Phalanger, and purchased of the Zoological Society the Sloths and Ant-eaters which during that period died in their Gardens.
The one is distinctly a true squirrel, a rodent of the rodents, externally adapted to an arboreal existence; the other is equally a true phalanger, a marsupial of the marsupials, which has independently undergone on his own account very much the same adaptation, for very much the same reasons.
The vulpine phalanger does duty for a fox; the fat and sleepy little dormouse phalanger takes the place of a European dormouse.
How beautiful is the adventure which has led our dipper or water-ouzel--a bird allied to the wrens--to try walking and flying under water! How admirable is the volplaning of numerous parachutists--"flying fish," "flying frog," "flying dragon," "flying phalanger," "flying squirrel," and more besides, which take great leaps through the air.
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2013).