Noun: pangolin
| Singular | pangolin |
| Plural | pangolins |
Sample Sentences
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Like many Sri Lankans, pangolins have big tongues, thick hides and small brains. They pick on ants, rats and anything smaller than them. They hide in terror when faced with bullies and get up to mischief when the lights are out. They are hundreds of thousands of years old and are plodding towards extinction. [2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 302:]
Nouns inflected like pangolin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay pengguling, from peng- (“denominative prefix”) + guling (“to roll”).
Verbs referencing "pangolin"
Italian Nouns
pangolino, Catalan Nouns
pangolí.