kukang

kukang

English

Noun

kukang (plural kukangs)

1. (archaic) Nycticebus coucang, the Sunda slow loris.
   • 1838, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science (volume 7, page 69)

     Of the genus Loris are two species, the Kukang or Lemur tardigradus, and the Nycticebus Javanicus, the latter of which however I have not seen.

   • 1895, The Black Cat (volume 1, page 37)

     […] leaving the poor fellow to make his way unarmed down to the sea, where he ran upon a pair of half-starved kukangs, a vicious species of Malay chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he fell over the cliff and was dashed to pieces.