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English

From a West African language; compare Akan ap?s?.

potto (plural pottos)

A small primate, Perodicticus potto, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. [from 18th c.]
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 147:
  The forest hangs round them like a theater curtain, mist rising from the water, half-drowned things – jackals, monkeys, pottos, bushpigs – wading along with them, looking dazed and bearish.
(now rare) The kinkajou. [from 18th c.]

potto

potoo (plural potoos)

(birds) Any species of the genus Nyctibius related to the nightjars (same order Caprimulgiformes), and found from southern Mexico to southern Brazil.

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