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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large leaf-eating monkey (Nasalis larvatus) found only on Borneo, having an orange to pink face with a large protruding nose, especially in the male.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A semnopithecine ape, Nasalis larvatus; a kahau: so called from the elongated and flexible snout, which resembles the human nose in size and shape. See cut under
Nasalis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose
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