kinkajou

1. 1.

   arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail

   Synonymshoney bearpottoPotos flavusPotos caudivolvulus

   Broaderprocyonid

   Part ofPotos
2. 2.

   a kind of lemur

   SynonymspottoPerodicticus potto

   Broaderlemur

   Part ofPerodicticus

Other forms of kinkajou

plural

kinkajous·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kinkajou

What does kinkajou mean?

kinkajou means "arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kinkajou?

kinkajou has 3 syllables: kin-ka-jou. The stress falls on "kin".

What is another word for kinkajou?

Close synonyms include honey bear, potto, Potos flavus, Potos caudivolvulus, potto. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kinkajou a common word?

kinkajou is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.