polatouche
English
Etymology
From French polatouche.
Pronunciation
Noun
polatouche (plural polatouches)
- 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.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “polatouche”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- polatouche in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish polatucha.
Noun
polatouche m (plural polatouches)
Further reading
- “polatouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.