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potto (pät′ō)

noun pl. pottos -·tos

a slow-moving, large-eyed central African prosimian primate (Perodicticus potto) of the same family as the lorises and angwantibos

Etymology: < Afr native name, as in Wolof pata, a kind of tailless monkey

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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