n.
Any of various small arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia and adjacent islands, having a long tail and dense woolly fur and including the cuscus and the flying phalanger.
[New Latin, from Greek phalanx, phalang-, toe bone (from its fused hind toes). See phalanx.]
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