micoleón

Spanish

Kinkajou (Potos flavus)

Alternative forms

• mico león

Etymology

From mico (“monkey”) +‎ león (“lion”).

Noun

micoleón m (plural micoleones)

1. (Yucatán, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) kinkajou (Potos flavus)

References

• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎^[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 588

Further reading

• “micoleón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10