kinkajou
pronunciation
How to pronounce kinkajou in British English:
UK [ˈkɪŋkədʒu:]
How to pronounce kinkajou in American English:
US [ˈkɪŋkəˌdʒu]
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- Noun:
- arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
- a kind of lemur
Word Origin
- kinkajou (n.)
- 1796, from French (1670s), from an Algonquian word.
Example
- 1. Kays suspects that the tree 's most consistent pollinators may be two arboreal mammals that few have heard of and fewer still have studied : the kinkajou and the olingo .