colugo

English

A 19th-century watercolour of a colugo with two of its young in its patagium

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.

Synonyms

flying lemur

Translations

arboreal gliding mammal

Chinese:
Mandarin: 鼯猴
Finnish: kaguaani (fi)
French: dermoptère (fr) m, galéopithèque (fr)
Italian: colugo m

Malay: kandau, kubung
Navajo: naalkʼįhiitsoh
Portuguese: lémur-voador m (Portugal), lêmure-voador m (Brazil)
Romanian: colugo (ro) m
Spanish: colugo m, lémur volador, dermóptero m

Italian

Etymology

From a Malayo-Polynesian language.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koˈlu.ɡo/, [koˈl̺uːɡo]
Stress: colùgo
Hyphenation: co‧lu‧go

Noun

colugo m (plural colughi)

colugo, flying lemur

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