Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small nocturnal insect-eating African primates of the genera Perodicticus and Arctocebus, having a pointed snout, large eyes and ears, a stumplike index finger, and a very short tail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small West African lemuroid quadruped, Perodicticus potto. See
Perodicticus . - noun The kinkajou, Cercoleptes caudivolvulus. See cut under
kinkajou .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A nocturnal mammal (
Perodictius potto ) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called alsoaposoro , andbush dog . - noun The kinkajou.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
primate , of the subfamilyPerodictictinae , from thetropical rainforests ofAfrica .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
- noun a kind of lemur
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Check out photos of a newborn potto, baby orangutan and some playful tiger cubs.
PHOTOS: This Week's Best In Animals -- Baby Potto, Newborn Orangutan, Tiger Cubs & More Travis Walter Donovan 2011
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Check out photos of a newborn potto, baby orangutan and some playful tiger cubs.
PHOTOS: This Week's Best In Animals -- Baby Potto, Newborn Orangutan, Tiger Cubs & More Travis Walter Donovan 2011
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There are small primate populations of potto Perodicticus potto, western black and white colobus Colobus polykomos, red colobus Colobus badius (EN), diana monkey Cercopithecus diana (EN), lesser bushbaby Galago senegalensi and chimpanzees Pan troglodytes (EN) which are close neighbors of the tool-using population in Bossou.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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I would keep it in a grotto, if I only had a potto, and I'd feed it on risotto
I bin to London Zoo again MissPrism 2009
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I would keep it in a grotto, if I only had a potto, and I'd feed it on risotto
Archive 2009-04-01 MissPrism 2009
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The teeth of the labyrinthodon, the hand of the potto, the whalebone of whales, the wings of birds, the climbing tendrils of some plants, &c. have also been adduced as instances of structures, the origin and production of which are probably due rather to considerable modifications than to minute increments.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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The missing forefinger to the hand of the potto [299] would appear at first sight to have been lost by some such mishap.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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Check out photos of a newborn potto, baby orangutan and some playful tiger cubs.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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They are lotto-potto in Italy spending a reported 27-billion euros a year on trying to beat the balls.
euronews 2009
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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.
chained_bear commented on the word potto
"'What is a potto?'
'It is a little furry creature that sleeps all day curled up in a ball with its head between its legs and then walks about very, very slowly all night, high in the trees, slowly eating leaves and creeping up on birds as they roost and eating them too. It has immense eyes, which is but reasonable. Some call it the sluggard; some the slow lemur; some the sloth, but quite erroneously, for the two have nothing in common but their modest demeanour, their inoffensive lives....'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 209
another usage note on plantain-eater.
March 18, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word potto
For images, click here and here.
See also awantibo or agwantibo.
March 18, 2008
sionnach commented on the word potto
Another animal deemed "inoffensive", though this time it's by Patrick O'Brian, and not by Weirdnet.
ImageSearch has way too many images of skulls and sweaty singers, and not nearly enough cute foxy faces, so c_b's image links are particularly welcome.
April 15, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word potto
See also user perodicticus (lowercase, alas).
April 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word potto
What's with the weird Colonel Sanders manga on image search? KFP?
April 15, 2009
sionnach commented on the word potto
Or, for that matter, what's with this image that I get on this page as a google_ad. Some kind of hideous Norwegian contraption; but for what exactly? Holding people down while they are forced to listen to their handlers read "Hunger"? Or some more devious porpoise still?
scary norwegian device
April 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word potto
Whatever it is, it's impressive. I'm guessing it's medical as it has a box-that-goes-ping on the the left side.
April 15, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word potto
You mean the ad-links that say "2 Rules Lost Me 30 Pounds," "Care Free Palm Trees," and "Christian Mom Makes $5K/M"?
April 15, 2009