What does "pentail" mean?

A species of treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) of Borneo, with a very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.

Pentail

Common synonyms include: pen tail, pen tailed tree shrew, pen tailed treeshrew, pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew, pen-tailed treeshrew.

noun

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Noun

1
A species of treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) of Borneo, with a very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.
2
brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia wordnet

From pen + tail.

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