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Potto

//ˈpɒtəʊ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in North Yorkshire.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) wordnet
  3. 3
    The kinkajou. archaic
  4. 4
    arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail wordnet

Etymology

From a West African language; compare Akan apɔsɔ.

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