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Webster 1913 Edition


Colugo


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)

  1. An arboreal gliding mammal, of order Dermoptera, native to South-east Asia.

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Italian

Noun

colugo m (plural colughi)

  1. colugo, flying lemur