Potto
//ˈpɒtəʊ// name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small primate of the genus Perodicticus, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa.
"The forest hangs round them like a theater curtain, mist rising from the water, half-drowned things – jackals, monkeys, pottos, bushpigs – wading along with them, looking dazed and bearish."
- 2 a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) wordnet
- 3 The kinkajou. archaic
- 4 arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A village in North Yorkshire.
Example
More examples"The forest hangs round them like a theater curtain, mist rising from the water, half-drowned things – jackals, monkeys, pottos, bushpigs – wading along with them, looking dazed and bearish."
Etymology
From a West African language; compare Akan apɔsɔ.
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