colugo

Unknown, possibly from a Malayo-Polynesian language.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈluːɡoʊ/

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colugo (plural colugos or colugo)

1. An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae 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.

• flying lemur

Unknown, possibly from a Malayo-Polynesian language.

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

colugo m (plural colughi)

1. synonym of cinocefalo

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

• Hyphenation: co‧lu‧go

colugo m (plural colugos)

1. colugo

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