colugo

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English

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A 19th-century watercolour of a colugo with two of its young in its patagium
A female colugo photographed in Singapore

Etymology

From a Malayo-Polynesian language.

Pronunciation

Noun

colugo (plural colugos or colugo)

  1. An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae native to Southeast Asia.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 258:
      Colugos, our closest living non-primate relatives, are able to glide as much as 150 metres (more than 490 feet) between trees.

Synonyms

Translations

Italian

Etymology

From a Malayo-Polynesian language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈlu.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -uɡo
  • Hyphenation: co‧lù‧go

Noun

colugo m (plural colughi)

  1. Synonym of cinocefalo

Further reading

  • colugo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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