pygmy glider


noun
  1. a gliding marsupial, Acrobates pygmaeus, of Australia, growing to about the size of a mouse and having a featherlike tail.

  • Also called feathertail glider.

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British Dictionary definitions for pygmy glider

pygmy glider

noun
  1. a small arboreal marsupial, Acrobates pygmaeus, of Australia and New Guinea moving with gliding leaps using folds of skin between the hind limbs and forelimbs

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