Crossword clues for entellus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entellus \En*tel"lus\, n. [NL., the specific name, fr. Gr. ? to command.] (Zo["o]l.) An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey ( Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.
WordNet
n. langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India [syn: hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus]
Wikipedia
Entellus was a Trojan or Sicilian hero from whom the town of Entella in Sicily was believed to have received its name. He was a friend of the Trojan king Acestes. A boxing match of Entellus with Dares is described in Virgil's Aeneid.
Entellus is the namesake of the Gray langur Presbytis entellus.
Usage examples of "entellus".
Although he was far from having studied the fifth book of the Æneid, in which young Dares and the old Entellus give proofs of their great skill in this manly exercise before the loudly applauding Trojan fugitives, he knew something of this species of recreation, to which the country people in his village were not altogether strangers.
Two of the keepers affirmed that this slight sound was the animal's laughter, and when I expressed some doubt on this head (being at the time quite inexperienced), they made it attack or rather threaten a hated Entellus monkey, living in the same compartment.