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colobus

n. (context zoology English) Any of several large arboreal African monkeys of the genus ''Colobus''.

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colobus

n. arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs [syn: colobus monkey]

Usage examples of "colobus".

They were colobus monkeys, and sometimes one would come down from a tree and scuttle across the meadow near the tent, watching them with alert, intelligent eyes.

Nevertheless, another objection took shape in her mind, and she hurried to intercept Ngai, who was busy climbing to a nest of woven twigs and colobus fur.

Richard Wrangham, a primatologist at Harvard, cites the example of the red colobus monkey.

Sean was dressed in a cloak of colobus monkey skins and he wore Somali sandals of elephant hide on his feet and a shaggy cap of monkey skin covered his obviously Caucasian hair.

Round the ankles he wore black fringes of hair, and, projecting from the upper portion of the calves, to which they were attached, were long spurs like spikes, from which flowed down tufts of the beautiful black and waving hair of the Colobus monkey.

Save for academic interest or sentimentality, they have no more interest in talking to us than you would have in chatting to a Colobus monkey.