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colugos

colugos is the plural of colugo.

Meaning of colugo

Noun

colugo (plural colugos or colugo)

  1. 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 258

Questions about colugos

What is colugos the plural of?
Colugos is the plural of colugo.

Words near colugos in the dictionary

  1. colubroids
  2. Coluca
  3. Colucci
  4. Coluccis
  5. colugo
  6. colugos
  7. coluli
  8. colulus
  9. colum
  10. Columba
  11. columbamide

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