Meanings
plural colugos
- An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae of the order Dermoptera, native to Southeast Asia.
Colugos, our closest living non-primate relatives, are able to glide as much as 150 metres (more than 490 feet) between trees.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 258Synonyms: cynocephalid, flying lemur
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae of the order Dermoptera, native to Southeast Asia.
More synonyms by meaning
nounarboreal 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Unknown, possibly from a Malayo-Polynesian language.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian кагуан, кожокрил
- кагуан (kaguan)arboreal gliding mammal
- кожокрил (kožokril)arboreal gliding mammal
- летящ лемур (letjašt lemur)arboreal gliding mammal
Chinese Mandarin 鼯猴
- 鼯猴arboreal gliding mammal
Finnish kaguaani
- kaguaaniarboreal gliding mammal
French dermoptère, galéopithèque
- dermoptèrearboreal gliding mammal
- galéopithèquearboreal gliding mammal
German Riesengleiter
- Riesengleiterarboreal gliding mammal
Hungarian repülőmaki, repülőmakifélék
- repülőmakiarboreal gliding mammal
- repülőmakifélékarboreal gliding mammal
Italian colugo
- colugoarboreal gliding mammal
Malay kandau, kubung
- kandauarboreal gliding mammal
- kubungarboreal gliding mammal
Polish latawiec
- latawiecarboreal gliding mammal
Portuguese colugo
- colugoarboreal gliding mammal
Romanian colugo
- colugoarboreal gliding mammal
Spanish colugo, lémur volador
- colugoarboreal gliding mammal
- lémur voladorarboreal gliding mammal
- dermópteroarboreal gliding mammal
Thai บ่าง
- บ่าง (bàang)arboreal gliding mammal
Cite this entry
colugo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colugo
“colugo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colugo. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colugo,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colugo.
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