colugo
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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flying_maucauco_with_its_young_%28William_Farquhar_Collection%2C_1819%E2%80%931823%29.jpg/220px-Flying_maucauco_with_its_young_%28William_Farquhar_Collection%2C_1819%E2%80%931823%29.jpg)
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Etymology
[edit]From a Malayo-Polynesian language.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]colugo (plural colugos or colugo)
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]arboreal gliding mammal
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Malayo-Polynesian language.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]colugo m (plural colughi)
- Synonym of cinocefalo
Further reading
[edit]- colugo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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