potto

From a West African language; compare Akan apɔsɔ.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒtəʊ/

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potto (plural pottos)

1. 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.

2. (now rare) The kinkajou. [from 18th c.]

• false potto, Martin's false potto (Pseudopotto martini)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔt.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔtto
• Hyphenation: pòt‧to

potto m (plural potti)

1. potto (Perodicticus potto)

   Synonym: Bosman's potto