assapan means A southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans), found in the southern and eastern United States. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 97 out of 100.
Etymology
From Eastern Algonquian, probably Powhatan, first recorded as assapanick in 1612.
noun
- A southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans), found in the southern and eastern United States.“Other Taguans and Assapans belong to the genus Sciuropterus, or winged squirrels. Like most of the active rodents, the Flying Squirrels are very capable of domestication, and will soon learn to prefer the society of human beings […].”
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