[Malay kūkang.] The slow-paced lemur or loris (Stenops javanicus or Nycticebus tardigradus) found in the East Indies from Hindustan to Java and China.
1861. Wood, Nat. Hist., I. 107. The Slow-paced Loris, or Kukang, is very similar in its habits to [the Slender Loris].
1883. Cassells Nat. Hist., I. 245. Naturalists term him the Slow Loris or Kukang.