micoleón

Spanish

Kinkajou (Potos flavus)

Alternative forms

mico león

Etymology

From mico (“monkey”) +‎ león (“lion”).

Noun

micoleón m (plural micoleones)

(Yucatán, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) kinkajou (Potos flavus)

References

Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 588

Further reading

“micoleón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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