colugo

English

Malayan colugo (Galeopterus variegatus)

Etymology

From a Malayo-Polynesian language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈluːɡoʊ/

Noun

colugo (plural colugos or colugo)

1. An arboreal gliding mammal of the order Dermoptera 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

• flying lemur

Translations

arboreal gliding mammal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼯猴

• Finnish: kaguaani (fi)
• French: dermoptère (fr) m, galéopithèque (fr)
• German: Riesengleiter m
• Hungarian: repülőmaki, repülőmakifélék pl
• Italian: colugo (it) m
• Malay: kandau, kubung
• Portuguese: colugo
• Romanian: colugo (ro) m
• Spanish: colugo m, lémur volador, dermóptero m
• Thai: บ่าง (th) (bàang)

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈlu.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈlu.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈlu.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈlu.ɡu/ [kuˈlu.ɣu]

• Hyphenation: co‧lu‧go

Noun

colugo m (plural colugos)

1. colugo

   Synonyms: (Portugal) lémur-voador, (Brazil) lêmure-voador