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Galago
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Galago has 1 sense
- galago(n = noun.animal) bush baby, bushbaby - agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears; Array is a kind of lemur
is a member of genus galago
CIDE DICTIONARY
Galago, n. [Native name.].
A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species. [1913 Webster]
" The grand galago (Galago crassicaudata ) is about the size of a cat; the mouse galago (G. murinus )is about the size of a mouse."
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Galago, n. (pl. -os) any small tree-climbing primate of the genus Galago, found in southern Africa, with large eyes and ears and a long tail. Also called bush-baby.
Etymology
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