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Meanings of colugo in English

Portuguese
dermoptera
Catalan
lèmur
Spanish
dermoptera

Arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps.

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        Usage of colugo in English
        1
        The order includes the moles, shrews, hedgehogs, tanrecs, and allied animals, also the colugo.
        The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section I, J, K, ...
        2
        The mammal is officially known as a colugo,which is merely a closely related relative of true lemurs.
        Wired
        3
        To test these hypotheses, a detailed examination of the anatomy of the carpus of gliding and non-gliding squirrels, and the colugo were undertaken.
        Pubmed
        4
        The Dyak chaps talk about a Big Colugo, a Klang-utang-whateverthat may be.
        The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
        5
        They say there is a Big Colugo and a Little Colugo, and a something else that sounds like gobble.
        The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
        6
        Our data show that colugos are the closest living relatives of primates and indicate that their divergence occurred in the Cretaceous.
        Pubmed
        Translations for colugo
        Portuguese
        dermoptera
        Spanish
        dermoptera
        Colugo through the time