HYLOBATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hylobates mean? 

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

1. gibbons

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYLOBATES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gibbons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Hylobates; Hylobates

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Hylobates"):

gibbon; Hylobates lar (smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies)

Hylobates syndactylus; siamang; Symphalangus syndactylus (large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web)

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

family Hylobatidae; Hylobatidae (used in some classifications for the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs); sometimes considered a subfamily of Pongidae)