Petaurist

English

Etymology

Latin petaurista a ropedancer, acrobat, from Ancient Greek πετευριστής (peteuristēs), from πετευρίζομαι (peteurizomai, “dance on a rope”), from πέτευρον (peteuron, “a pole, a stage for ropedancers”)

Noun

Petaurist (plural Petaurists)

  1. (zoology) Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Last modified on 4 February 2013, at 06:39