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 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.

Synonyms

• flying lemur

Translations

arboreal gliding mammal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼯猴

• Finnish: kaguaani (fi)
• French: dermoptère (fr) m, galéopithèque (fr)
• German: Riesengleiter m
• Hungarian: repülőmaki, repülőmakifélék pl
• 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)

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