Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The slow lemur of Old Calabar, Arctocebus calabarensis, of the subfamily Nycticebinæ, related to the potto, and by some referred to the genus Perodicticus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small lemuroid mammal (
Arctocebus Calabarensis ) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Either of two small
primates , of the genus Arctocebus, similar tolemurs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a kind of lemur
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The northwestern limit of the ecoregion is the Sanaga River, a faunal boundary for such species as the golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus), white-bellied duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster), mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), and elegant needle-clawed galago (Euoticus elegantus).
chained_bear commented on the word angwantibo
Found this spelling when I was entering a usage note for awantibo, which is the spelling that appears in the novel I was reading... but this spelling came up elsewhere, so I wonder if it was actually a typo, or possibly an older spelling...? Anyway... there's a usage note and some links on potto and awantibo. I can hardly believe I've lived this long and never heard of this animal before today.
March 18, 2008