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Large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web
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siamang
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n. (context zoology English) A large black gibbon, ''Symphalangus syndactylus'', from Sumatra
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The siamang ( Symphalangus syndactylus ) is an arboreal black-furred gibbon native to the forests of Malaysia , Thailand , and Sumatra . The largest of the gibbons, the siamang can be twice the size of other gibbons, reaching 1 m in height, and weighing ...
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Siamang \Si"a*mang`\, n. [Malay si[=a]mang.] (Zool.) A gibbon ( Hylobates syndactylus ), native of Sumatr It has the second and third toes partially united by a we
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n. large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web [syn: Hylobates syndactylus , Symphalangus syndactylus ]
Usage examples of siamang.
People in bright clothing, agile as the siamang of near Sumatra, sped overhead along treeways and ropeways, arms and hands modified for brachiation.
He is having a business conversation just now with some Rajahs, whose numerous followers are standing and lying about, and Eblis is sitting on his shoulder with one arm round his neck, while Mahmoud sits on the table opening letters, and the siamang, sitting on the rafter, is looking down with an unpleasant look.
He went to the roof, where the half-tamed siamang was supporting him hour after hour as gently as a mother would support a sick child.
She had been an ape once, a siamang, and she felt perfectly at home in the treetops.
The two swam easily on the surface with their long siamang arms, laughing and calling to one another as the jellyfish in their millions caressed them with the most featherlike of touches.
That siamang is eating one now--Symphalangus syndactylus--the black gibbon of Sumatra, largest of the gibbons.
Around them were the ordinary daylight sounds of the forest, to which they were now so accustomed--the raucous cries of birds, the terrific booming of siamang gibbons, the chattering of the lesser simians--but no sound came from the tiger.
People in bright clothing, agile as the siamang of near Sumatra, sped overhead along freeways and ropeways, arms and hands modified for brachiation.
People in bright clothing, agile as the siamang of near Sumatra, sped overhead along freeways and ropeways, arms and hands modified for brachiation.