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Webster 1913 Edition
Colugo
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Co-lu′go
,Noun.
[Prob. an aboriginal name.]
(Zool.)
A peculiar East Indian mammal (
Galleopithecus volans
), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; – called also flying lemur
. Definition 2024
colugo
colugo
English
A 19th-century watercolour of a colugo with two of its young in its patagium
A female colugo photographed in Singapore
Noun
colugo (plural colugos or colugo)
- An arboreal gliding mammal, of order Dermoptera, native to South-east Asia.
Translations
arboreal gliding mammal
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