Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The small flying-squirrel of Europe and Asia, a species of the genus Sciuropterus. Also palatouche.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native to Northern Europe and Siberia; the minene.

Etymologies

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