micoleón
Spanish
Alternative forms
- mico león
Etymology
From mico (“monkey”) + león (“lion”).
Noun
micoleón m (plural micoleones)
- (Yucatán, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) kinkajou (Potos flavus)
References
- Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 588
Further reading
- “micoleón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024