Definitions for Colobus

Colobus col·o·bus

Spelling: [kol-uh-buh s, kuh-loh<
IPA: /ˈkɒl ə bəs, kəˈloʊ-/

Colobus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in Colobus (bcloosu).

Definitions for Colobus

noun

  1. any of several large, slender African monkeys of the genus Colobus, lacking thumbs and having long silky fur of black and white (C. polykomos), black and reddish-brown (C. badius), or olive (C. verus): now dwindling.

Origin of Colobus

1811; New Latin, the genus name Greek kolobós docked, maimed; so named from the mutilated appearance of the thumbless hands

Examples for Colobus

But his hair contradicts this—being straight as needles, and black as the skin of a colobus monkey.

The first with which we shall deal is colobus, containing the Monkeys known as Guerezas.

Fifty feet down the colobus seized a limb and went skipping away through the branches as lively as ever.

For gaudily marked beasts the colobus were extraordinarily difficult to see.

In Semnopithecus and colobus there are generally seven, but sometimes eight pairs of true ribs.

We took about twenty boys into the jungle with us, and as soon as we caught sight of a colobus we chased him madly.

In Africa, the representatives of this last-mentioned tribe are found in the colobus monkeys.

There are some seven species of monkeys, including two baboons and one colobus.

There are almost always five well-developed digits, but in the genera colobus and Ateles the pollex is vestigial.

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