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