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Phalanger

🔄 Synonyms of "Phalanger"

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Word	Definition
possumnoun	(US) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas.
opossumnoun	Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Phalanger"

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Word	Definition
possumnoun	(US) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas.
opossumnoun	Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.
marsupialnoun	Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
vulpinenoun	Any of certain canids called foxes (including true foxes, arctic foxes and grey foxes), distinguished from canines, which are regarded as similar to dogs and wolves.
phalangeriformnoun	Any marsupial of the suborder Phalangeriformes
phalangidannoun	Any arachnid of the order Phalangida
phalangopsidnoun	Any insect of the genus Phalangopsis
planigalenoun	Any species of the genus Planigale of small insectivorous marsupials endemic to Australia and New Guinea.
melliphagoidnoun	(ornithology) A bird of the passerine superfamily Meliphagoidea, a diverse group native to Australia and elsewhere in the South Pacific.
petauristnoun	(zoology) Any flying marsupial of the order Phalangeriformes, such as those in genera Petaurista, Phalanger, Acrobates.
pardalotenoun	Any of the Australian birds of the genus Pardalotus, which feed on lerps.
flying phalangernoun	petaurist
dibblernoun	A person who uses a dibble.
red-tailed phascogalenoun	A carnivorous marsupial, Phascogale calura, found in Western Australia.
savanna glidernoun	A species of arboreal marsupial, Petaurus ariel, of northern Australia (alternately classified as a subspecies of the sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps ariel).
frogmouthnoun	Any of several nocturnal, insectivorous birds, of the family Podargidae in the order Podargiformes, native to Australia and southern Asia
magpie-larknoun	A common species of passerine bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, family Monarchidae, of Australia and southern New Guinea.
spinifex pigeonnoun	Geophaps plumifera, native to Australia.
melampittanoun	Any member of the family Melampittidae of birds from New Guinea.
grass frognoun	Any of several Australian terrestrial tree frogs.