pen-tail

pen-tail
noun
brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia
Hypernyms: ↑tree shrew
Member Holonyms: ↑Ptilocercus, ↑genus Ptilocercus

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