Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A monkey of northern India, Semnopithecus sehistaceus, resembling and related to the entellus monkey or hanuman; the white-bearded ape. Also langoor, langhur.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A long-tailed monkey (
Semnopithecus schislaceus ), from the mountainous districts of India.
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- noun Archaic form of
langur .
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Examples
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And from the limbs above floated down the scolding voices of _lungoor_, the black-faced grey-whiskered monkeys, who rebuked the intrusion of the earth-dwellers below.
Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896
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