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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps [syn: flying lemur, flying cat, colugo]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -gos) Etymology: perhaps from a language of the Philippines Date: 1702 flying lemur

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Colugo Co*lu"go, n. [Prob. an aboriginal name.] (Zo["o]l.) A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.