flying squirrel

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Noun

flying squirrel (plural flying squirrels)

1. Any of 43 species of squirrel-like rodents, which glide from tree to tree:
   1. The tribe Pteromyini within the family Sciuridae, which are true squirrels.
   2. The family Anomaluridae, which are only distantly related to the squirrels.

Derived terms

• Beecroft's flying squirrel (Anomalurus beecrofti)
• dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus pusillus)
• Humboldt's flying squirrel
• lesser pygmy flying squirrel (Petaurillus emiliae)
• Lord Derby's scaly-tailed flying squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus)
• New World flying squirrel (Glaucomys spp.)
• northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus)
• Pel's flying squirrel (Anomalurus pelii)
• pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel (Idiurus zenkeri)
• red giant flying squirrel (Petaurista petaurista)
• Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans)
• southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans)
• spotted giant flying squirrel (Petaurista elegans)

Translations

squirrel

Assamese: বাংকেক (baṅkek) Catalan: esquirol volador m Chickasaw: pali' Chinese: Literary: 鸓 (lěi), 鼺 (léi) Mandarin: 鸓 / 𱊳 (zh) (lěi), 鼯鼠 (zh) (wúshǔ), 飛鼠 / 飞鼠 (zh) (fēishǔ) Czech: poletucha f Danish: flyveegern n Esperanto: flugsciuro Finnish: liito-orava (fi), liituri (Sciuridae); leijuri, suomuhäntäorava (Anomaluridae) French: écureuil volant (fr) m, polatouche (fr) m Georgian: მფრინავი ციყვი (mprinavi ciq̇vi) German: Flughörnchen n, Gleithörnchen (de) n Gujarati: ઉડાણખિસકોલી (uḍāṇkhiskolī) Irish: iora eitilte m Italian: anomaluro m Japanese: ムササビ (ja) (musasabi) Kanakanabu: rarʉ Korean: 날다람쥐 (naldaramjwi), 하늘다람쥐 (ko) (haneuldaramjwi) Malay: tupai terbang Mi'kmaq: sasgatu, sasqatu Navajo: hazéí naatʼáʼii Polish: polatucha (pl) f Portuguese: esquilo voador m Russian: бе́лка-летя́га f (bélka-letjága) Saaroa: laarʉ Spanish: ardilla voladora f Swedish: flygekorre (sv) c Tagalog: giggi Tamil: பறக்கும் அணில் (ta) (paṟakkum aṇil) Thai: กระรอกบิน (grà-rɔ̂ɔk-bin) Tibetan: བྱ་མ་བྱི (bya ma byi) Tsou: evoyʉ Turkish: uçan sincap Vietnamese: sóc bay Welsh: gwiwer hedegog f

See also

• Phalangeriformes