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Meaning of kukang | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Nycticebus coucang, the Sunda slow loris.

archaic

Examples

“Of the genus Loris are two species, the Kukang or Lemur tardigradus, and the Nycticebus Javanicus, the latter of which however I have not seen.”
“[…] leaving the poor fellow to make his way unarmed down to the sea, where he ran upon a pair of half-starved kukangs, a vicious species of Malay chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he fell over the cliff and was dashed to pieces.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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