Meaning

noun arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail

noun a kind of lemur

originEtymology tree French kinkajoubor. English kinkajou From French quincajou, from an Algonquian word, probably originally meaning ‘wolverine’ (compare Algonquin Kwingwaage, Ojibwe gwiingwa'aage (“wolverine”)), which was later transferred to the South American animal. Related to carcajou.

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