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scaletails

scaletails is the plural of scaletail.

Meaning of scaletail

Noun

scaletail (plural scaletails)

  1. Any of the scaly-tailed species of flying squirrel, especially of Zenkerella insignis; a Cameroon scaly-tail.
    • There is to be found in Africa, only, a flying-squirrel so different in structure and relationships that it is held to represent a separate order by some zoölogists, — the anomalurus lurus, or "scaletail."1907, Ernest Ingersoll, The life of animals: the mammals, page 446

Questions about scaletails

What is scaletails the plural of?
Scaletails is the plural of scaletail.

Words near scaletails in the dictionary

  1. scalesias
  2. scalesman
  3. scalesmen
  4. scalest
  5. scaletail
  6. scaletails
  7. scaleth
  8. Scaletta
  9. Scalettas
  10. scaleup
  11. scaleups

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