kukang

kukang (plural kukangs)

1. (archaic) Nycticebus coucang, the Sunda slow loris.
   • 1838, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, volume 7, page 69:

     Of the genus Loris are two species, the Kukang or Lemur tardigradus, and the Nycticebus Javanicus, the latter of which however I have not seen.

   • 1895, The Black Cat, volume 1, page 37:

     […] leaving the poor fellow to make his way unarmed down to the sea, where he ran upon a pair of half-starved kukangs, a vicious species of Malay chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he fell over the cliff and was dashed to pieces.

kukang (plural kukang-kukang)

1. nonstandard form of kungkang (“slow loris”)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈku.kaŋk/
• Rhymes: -ukaŋk
• Syllabification: ku‧kang

kukang m animal

1. slow loris (any primate of the genus Nycticebus)

• kukang in Polish dictionaries at PWN