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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various large, predominantly leaf-eating African monkeys of the genera Colobus, Piliocolobus, and Procolobus, having a long tail and vestigial thumbs.
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- noun arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Colobus, genus name, from Greek kolobos, maimed (from the appearance of its hands).]
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