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Definition of Flying mouse
1. Noun. Tiny flying phalanger.
Group relationships: Acrobates, Genus Acrobates
Definition of Flying mouse
1. Noun. Any species of rodent in the family ''Idiurus'', which have the ability to glide. ¹
2. Noun. (computing) An input device like a mouse that can be lifted from a surface and moved in three dimensions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flying Mouse
Literary usage of Flying mouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"They include the so-called Flying-Squirrel, Flying-Mouse, etc. There are three
genera— Acrobates (qv), called the Flying- Mouse, and Opossum-Mouse (qv). ..."
2. Some Curious Flyers, Creepers and Swimmers by James Johonnot (1888)
"THE flying mouse. 1. MOST people, if asked the question, What is a bat? would be
likely to say that it is a kind of bird. But there is nothing about the bat ..."
3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"... flying mouse (Petaurus one of the Australian species is scarcely larger than
a mouse, and is called flying mouse. ..."
4. A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: Or, Herbert's Note-book by William Howitt (1855)
"Mr. B. has painted the portrait of a flying mouse which we caught: he is always
making sketches; ... This flying mouse that he drew came out of the bushes, ..."
5. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1875)
"These general observations, together with the conduct of the spermatic elements
of the flying mouse, show that the central thread must be a peculiar element ..."
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