| 单词 | potto kinkajou |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotto kinkajou 2. The kinkajou, Potos flavus, of tropical America and the Caribbean. Formerly also †potto kinkajou. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Procyonidae (raccoons) > [noun] > genus Potos (kinkajou) heyrat1607 Mexican weasel1771 potto1771 yellow macauco1771 kinkajou1799 honey bear1821 1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 139 [Maucauco, Yellow.] Shewn about three years ago in London: its keeper said it came from the mountains of Jamaica, and called it a Potto. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (new ed.) I. 84 This is, perhaps, the only proper place for the singular genus of the Kinkajous or Potto... From the warm parts of America, and from some of the great Antilles, where it is called Potto. 1855 H. G. Dalton Hist. Brit. Guiana II. 456 The Potto-kinkajou, size of a pole-cat, a pretty looking animal, is occasionally seen. 1862 New Amer. Cycl. (new ed.) XIII. 537/2 The common potto, sometimes called kinkajou.., is about the size of a cat. 1921 Iowa City Press Citizen 24 Sept. 8/2 (caption) Miss Delphine Heyl..and her strange pet—‘Mickey’, a honey-bear, also known as a kinkajou or potto. 2005 R. M. Nowak Walker's Carnivores of World 138/1 Kinkajou,..Confusion sometimes results from the application of the vernacular name ‘potto’ to this species because the same term is used for the African primate Perodicticus. < as lemmas |
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