Word.ws English Dictionary

assapans

assapans is the plural of assapan.

Meaning of assapan

Noun

assapan (plural assapans)

  1. (Southern US, uncommon) The southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans), found in the southern and eastern United States.
    • Other Taguans and Assapans belong to the genus Sciuropterus, or winged squirrels. Like most of the active rodents, the Flying Squirrels are very capable of domestication, and will soon learn to prefer the society of human beings […].1875, John George Wood, Trespassers: showing how the inhabitants of earth, air, and water are enabled to trespass on domains not their own, page 299
    Synonyms:
    assapanick

Questions about assapans

What is assapans the plural of?
Assapans is the plural of assapan.

Words near assapans in the dictionary

  1. Assan
  2. Assaneth
  3. Assange
  4. Assanges
  5. assapan
  6. assapans
  7. assaria
  8. assarii
  9. assarion
  10. assarius
  11. assart

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: assapans (page history and authors); assapan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “assapans.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/assapans. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.