What is a web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister called?
parachute — (Zoöl.) A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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