COLOBUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colobus mean? 

• COLOBUS (noun)
  The noun COLOBUS has 1 sense:

1. arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs

  Familiarity information: COLOBUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOBUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

colobus; colobus monkey

Hypernyms ("colobus" is a kind of...):

catarrhine; Old World monkey (of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colobus"):

Colobus guereza; guereza (a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body)

Holonyms ("colobus" is a member of...):

genus Colobus (a genus of Cercopithecidae)