COLUGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colugo mean? 

• COLUGO (noun)
  The noun COLUGO has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: COLUGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLUGO (noun)

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

colugo; flying cat; flying lemur

Hypernyms ("colugo" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colugo"):

Cynocephalus variegatus (a variety of flying lemur)

Holonyms ("colugo" is a member of...):

Cynocephalus; genus Cynocephalus (type genus of the family Cynocephalidae)