Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sugar glider

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables: sug-ar glid-er
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the species Petaurus breviceps of omnivorous gliding arboreal marsupials, endemic to mainland Australia and New Guinea, and introduced to Tasmania in 1835.

noun

Krefft's glider (Petaurus notatus).

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"As with other exotic pets, sound husbandry is essential for captive sugar gliders to flourish."
"As in the eastern pygmy possum (van Tets and Hulbert 1999), this is reflected in a very low nitrogen requirement in sugar gliders (Smith and Green 1987), and probably all sap feeders."
"The animals on the cover of Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS are sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps). Sugar gliders are small, gray-furred creatures that grow to an adult length of six to seven-and-a-half inches.[…]This ensures that of the group will know when an outsider approaches; group members will fight off any sugar glider not bearing their scent."

Etymology

This common name refers to the animal's predilection for sugary foods such as sap and nectar and its ability to glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel.

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

sugar gliders (plural) sugarglider (alternative)

Questions

What does sugar glider mean?: Any of the species Petaurus breviceps of omnivorous gliding arboreal marsupials, endemic to mainland Australia and New Guinea, and introduced to Tasmania in 1835.
Where does sugar glider come from?: This common name refers to the animal's predilection for sugary foods such as sap and nectar and its ability to glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel.

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