colugo

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)

1. 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) German: Riesengleiter m Italian: colugo (it) m Malay: kandau, kubung Portuguese: lémur-voador m (Portugal), lêmure-voador m (Brazil) Romanian: colugo (ro) m Spanish: colugo m, lémur volador, dermóptero m Thai: บ่าง (th) (bàang)

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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