phalanger

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The carnivorous Thylacinus of Tasmania is also found fossil; and a huge phalanger, Thylacoleo, the size of a lion, believed by Professor Owen and by Professor Oscar Schmidt to have been equally carnivorous and destructive.

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  1. noun Any of various small arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia and adjacent islands, having a long tail and dense woolly fur and including the cuscus and the flying phalanger.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek phalanx, phalang-, toe bone (from its fused hind toes); see phalanx.

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  1. from French phalanger, from phalange, phalanx: see phalanx.
 

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