pentail

From pen +‎ tail.

pentail (plural pentails)

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.

• pen-tailed treeshrew

• “pentail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Platine, pantile, pilenta, pit lane, pitlane