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单词 galago
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galagon.

Brit. /ɡəˈleɪɡəʊ/, U.S. /ɡəˈleɪɡoʊ/, /ɡəˈlɑɡoʊ/, /ˈɡæləˌɡoʊ/
Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Galago.
Etymology: Probably < scientific Latin Galago, genus name (E. Geoffroy St-Hilaire 1796, in Magasin encyclopédique 1 49), probably < Wolof golo monkey + -g, noun class marker. Compare French galago (1796 in the text cited above).
Any of various small, nocturnal, tree-dwelling primates with very large eyes, belonging to the genus Galago and related genera of the family Lorisidae, and native to parts of sub-Saharan Africa; also called bushbaby. Also (in form Galago): the genus itself.
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1817 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. Sept. 361 Galago minutus... Lemur minutus Cuvier—Dwarf galago.
1824 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom (1827) I. 229 The Galagos..have the nails, the teeth and the insectivorous regimen of the preceding lemurs.
1874 Nature 29 Oct. 530/1 A Monteiro's Galago (Galago monteiri) from Angola.
1920 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 19 274 The Galagos range over nearly all Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
1959 C. Lagus Operation Noah 175 Also known as Bushbabies and Nightapes, Galagos are delightful little lemur-like animals.
1997 Guardian 21 Apr. ii. 7/5 The many species of galago, or bushbaby, are most easily identified by the timbre of their cries or, failing that, the shape of their penises.
2001 M. Folin & M. Rizzotti in C. Barbieri & F. Rampazzi Earth–Moon Relationships 541 It is now known that in the genus Galago..a reproductive seasonality is present in nature, probably correlated to food availability.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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