"scaletail" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From scale + tail, from the scales that appear on the tails.",
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          "ref": "1907, Ernest Ingersoll, The life of animals: the mammals, page 446:",
          "text": "There is to be found in Africa, only, a flying-squirrel so different in structure and relationships that it is held to represent a separate order by some zoölogists, — the anomalurus lurus, or \"scaletail.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1910, Harmsworth Natural History: A Complete Survey of the Animal Kingdom, page 550:",
          "text": "The most generalised member of the family is the flightless scaletail (Zenkerella insignis) of West Africa, which has the appearance of a small grey squirrel, although furnished with scales on the tail.",
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          "ref": "1983, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia (10 v.), page 204:",
          "text": "Scaly-tailed flying squirrels, or scaletails, are placed in 4 genera and about 12 species, all but one of which, the flightless scaletail (Zenkerella insignis), possess gliding membranes.",
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          "ref": "2013, Pierre-P. Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation, →ISBN, page 6:",
          "text": "It can be found both in the capybara and the harvest mouse, in the beaver and the squirrel, and in the meadow mouse and the scaletail.",
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        "Any of the scaly-tailed species of flying squirrel, especially of Zenkerella insignis; a Cameroon scaly-tail."
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          "Cameroon scaly-tail",
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          "ref": "1910, Harmsworth Natural History: A Complete Survey of the Animal Kingdom, page 550:",
          "text": "The most generalised member of the family is the flightless scaletail (Zenkerella insignis) of West Africa, which has the appearance of a small grey squirrel, although furnished with scales on the tail.",
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