It was a female, and though not exactly of the same species, much resembled the remarkable animal which Mons. de Buffon hath described by the name of phalanger. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference
At Rawak the phalanger and the sheepdog in a wild state were the only quadrupeds met with. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The vulpine phalanger does duty for a fox; the fat and sleepy little dormouse phalanger takes the place of a European dormouse. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
The inclusion of red fox and of pewee, penguin, phalarope, and phalanger raises the interesting question of how the editorial staff decided which faunal names to include. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1] Reference
The one is distinctly a true squirrel, a rodent of the rodents, externally adapted to an arboreal existence; the other is equally a true phalanger, a marsupial of the marsupials, which has independently undergone on his own account very much the same adaptation, for very much the same reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
Buffon hath described by the name of phalanger. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods] Reference
How admirable is the volplaning of numerous parachutists -- "flying fish," "flying frog," "flying dragon," "flying phalanger," "flying squirrel," and more besides, which take great leaps through the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
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