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    Is the word "cosumbo" spanish or quechua? And does it mean coati or kinkajou? I've tried Googling it and I'm still unclear!!

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    Hi Jo

    This word doesn't appear in the online dictionary Real Academia Española which is broadly considered an authoritative source. And I've never heard it before, being a native Spanish speaker. So I'd say that it's not Spanish. I'll leave someone else the task of confirming whether it's quechua or not, and its meaning.

    Cheers.
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    thankss ;-)

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    Hi all!

    As far I was able to see, cosumbo is a misspelling of cusumbo, wich means coatí in Colombia: Diccionario de la lengua española - Vigésima segunda edición

    It looks like in quechua it's: sacha-mono, so I guess cusumbo may come from some other Colombian native language.

    Hope it helps!

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    a cosumbo is a strange animal, looks like both a huge rat

    and a monkey, lives in Ecuador

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    Good Morning,
    I looked it up and it seems to be "coatí", it does look like a rat and a monkey... but a bit like a raccoon as well, doesn't it?

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