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Kinkajou

//ˈkɪŋkəˌd͡ʒuː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Potos flavus, a carnivorous mammal of Central America and South America with a long, prehensile tail, related to the raccoon.
  2. 2
    a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) wordnet
  3. 3
    arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail wordnet

Etymology

From French quincajou, from an Algonquian word, probably originally meaning ‘wolverine’ (compare Algonquin Kwingwaage, Ojibwe gwiingwa'aage (“wolverine”)), which was later transferred to the South American animal. Related to carcajou.

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