Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The native name of the American flying-squirrel, Sciuropterus volucella. Also assapanick, assaphan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The American flying squirrel (
Pteromys volucella ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun southern US A
flying squirrel , Glaucomys volans, the southern flying squirrel, found in the southern and eastern United States.
Etymologies
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From a Native American language of the southeastern United States. This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.
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