Crossword clues for kinkajou
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kinkajou \Kin"ka*jou`\, n. [F. kinkajou, quincajou, from the native American name.] (Zo["o]l.) A nocturnal carnivorous mammal ( Cercoleptes caudivolvulus) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative of a distinct family ( Cercoleptid[ae]) allied to the raccoons. Called also potto, and honey bear.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, from French (1670s), from an Algonquian word.
Wiktionary
n. (taxlink Potos flavus species noshow=1), a carnivorous mammal of Central America and South America with a long, prehensile tail, related to the raccoon.
WordNet
n. arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail [syn: honey bear, potto, Potos flavus, Potos caudivolvulus]
a kind of lemur [syn: potto, Perodicticus potto]
Wikipedia
The kinkajou (Potos flavus) is a rainforest mammal of the family Procyonidae related to olingos, coatis, raccoons, and the ringtail and cacomistle. It is the only member of the genus Potos and is also known as the "honey bear" (a name that it shares with the sun bear). Kinkajous may be mistaken for ferrets or monkeys, but are not closely related to either. Native to Central America and South America, this mostly frugivorous, arboreal mammal is not an endangered species, though it is seldom seen by people because of its strict nocturnal habits. However, they are hunted for the pet trade, for their fur (to make wallets and horse saddles) and for their meat. The species has been included in Appendix III of CITES by Honduras, which means that exports from Honduras require an export permit and exports from other countries require a certificate of origin or re-export. They may live up to 40 years in captivity.
Usage examples of "kinkajou".
The kinkajou may have been following the routine of the Sattor Commander.
The kinkajou wanted him to return it to that building until it finished some task, protecting it meanwhile from his own kind.
Somehow he managed to tip the box back into the flitter, the kinkajou protesting the retreat bitterly—though Troy noted it made no attempt to leave him.
When the flitter set down in the court of Kyger’s establishment, the kinkajou moved to the cabin door, patted it with front paws, and looked to Troy entreat ingly, every line of its rounded body expressing eagerness to be free.
But if the kinkajou received those suggestions, it neither acknowledged nor reacted to them.
So—if he were right and it was the kinkajou and Kyger who were talking so—then such an animal might well be stolen to serve as bait for its master.
Or did the kinkajou, fearing its master, hold Troy in reserve as a possible escape, as he had been for it at the Di villa?
He saw the second one now, curled up much as the kinkajou had been, its back to the world, in the far part of the cage.
If he could not find the kinkajou one way, there was a chance—just a very faint chance—another and more devious path might serve.
For some reason Kyger had hidden the kinkajou, intending to get rid of it.
The kinkajou, the foxes, even the cats, all knew that he was able to communicate with them.
Nor did Horan have the least idea in which of these enclosures the kinkajou was now housed, if it was here at all.
The kinkajou was loose, and he could not help believing that the animal was far safer at this moment than it had been in that cage.
He did not believe that the kinkajou would remain in hiding there unless the fact that it must have imported food would tie it to the source of supply.
And now, fronting him out of nowhere, were those shadows—the black cat and its blue-gray mate, the kinkajou, no longer an indifferent ball but very much alert, the two foxes he could have sworn were safe in their cage in the other building.