polatouche

English

Etymology

From French polatouche.

Noun

polatouche (plural polatouches)

1. A Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans, syn. Sciuropterus volans), native to much of boreal Eurasia, from Finland east.

Synonyms

• (Pteromys volans): minene

References

• “polatouche”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “polatouche”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• polatouche in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish polatucha.

Noun

polatouche m (plural polatouches)

1. Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans)

Further reading

• “polatouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.