colugo

A noun referring to an arboreal, nocturnal mammal native to Southeast Asia and the Philippines, resembling a lemur and possessing a membrane of skin extending from its neck to its tail, which enables it to glide long distances between trees.

• 🇪🇸Sustantivo que designa un mamífero arbóreo y nocturno del sudeste asiático y Filipinas, similar a un lémur, con una membrana de piel que va del cuello a la cola y que le permite planear grandes distancias entre los árboles.

1. Arboreal gliding mammal C1 formal

   A nocturnal mammal native to Southeast Asia and the Philippines, resembling a lemur, with a membrane of skin stretching from its neck to its tail that allows it to glide long distances between trees.

   • The colugo glided silently from one tree to another in the rainforest.
   • Researchers observed a colugo carrying its baby while gliding.
   • Colugos are sometimes called flying lemurs, though they are not true lemurs.

   🇪🇸Colugo o lémur volador

   Sinónimos: flying lemur

• colugos plural form
• colugos' possessive plural form
• colugo's possessive singular form