colugo
English
![](../I/m/Flying_maucauco_with_its_young_(William_Farquhar_Collection%2C_1819%E2%80%931823).jpg)
A 19th-century watercolour of a colugo with two of its young in its patagium
![](../I/m/Colugo_(Galeopterus_variegatus%2C_adult_female)%2C_Central_Catchment_Area%2C_Singapore_-_20060618.jpg)
A female colugo photographed in Singapore
Etymology
From a Malayo-Polynesian language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈluːɡoʊ/
Noun
colugo (plural colugos or colugo)
- An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae native to South-east Asia.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 2013 edition, Granta Books, page 258:
- Colugos, our closest living non-primate relatives, are able to glide as much as 150 metres (more than 490 feet) between trees.
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Synonyms
Translations
arboreal gliding mammal
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Italian
Etymology
From a Malayo-Polynesian language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈlu.ɡo/, [koˈl̺uːɡo]
- Stress: colùgo
- Hyphenation: co‧lu‧go
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