potto
nounUK /ˈpɒtəʊ/
Etymology From a West African language; compare Akan apɔsɔ.
1
A small primate of the genus Perodicticus, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa.
- 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.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 147:
2
Archaic The kinkajou.
- Derived terms
- golden potto, false potto, Martin's false potto