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Webster 1913 Edition


Colugo

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Co-lu′go

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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
.