potto

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To these species of monkeys, one can add black and white colubus; gray cheeked Mangabey, red tailed monkey, bus baby, potto and olive baboon.

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  1. noun Any of several small nocturnal African primates of the genera Perodicticus and Arctocebus, having a pointed snout, large eyes and ears, and a stumplike index finger and tail.

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  • To these species of monkeys, one can add black and white colubus; gray cheeked Mangabey, red tailed monkey, bus baby, potto and olive baboon. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Have you ever seen the war dance, in which the Hotto-potto-cum-from-the-wash-ki Indians usually indulge before they set out on an expedition?--A quarter to three," he continued, pulling out his watch, "the coach to London passes in five minutes, I shan't have time to show it you--it begins so." —  Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
  • A fowl roasted or boiled, as we eat them in England, is wasted, compared with this delicious guiso de potto which one gets in any rancho in the Banda Orient. —  The Purple Land
  • Hotto-potto-cum-from-the-wash-ki Indians usually indulge before they set out on an expedition? —  Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
  • They are lotto-potto in Italy spending a reported 27-billion euros a year on trying to beat the balls. —  euronews
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  1. Of Niger-Congo origin; perhaps akin to Wolof pata, a tailless monkey, or Akan (Twi) apɔsɔ, a fierce monkeylike animal.

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  1. Also poto; African (?).
 

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