Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several medium-sized leaf-eating monkeys of the genus Pygathrix of Southeast Asia, having a light-colored face surrounded by a long fringe of white hair, a dark cap, long legs, and a long tail.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of the old-world catarrhine monkeys of the genus Semnopithecus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A monkey (Semnopithecus nemæus), remarkable for its varied and brilliant colors. It is a native of Cochin China.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A species of colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably from Muong (Mon-Khmer language of northern Vietnam) dộc.]

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Examples

  • Acting like a douc he online is no way for a grown man to conduct themselves …

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  • Friday, October 17, 2008 at 02: 28 PM une branche de douce-amere pour ta douc-e mere

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  • Prior to the recent discovery in the Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, the largest known populations were believed to be in adjacent Vietnam, where black-shanked douc langurs and yellow-cheeked crested gibbons hover at 600 and 200 respectively.

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  • The report counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs along with 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in Cambodia's Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, an estimate that represents the largest known populations for both species in the world.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • The douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus, EN) is a primate species found in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

    Biological diversity in Indo-Burma 2008

  • The douc langur and the murid Maxomys moi are near endemics, whereas the northern smooth-tailed tree shrew (Dendrogale murina) is endemic (Table 1).

    Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests 2008

  • Nevertheless, it still harbors several mammals and birds of conservation significance, including the Owston's banded civet (Hemigalus owstoni), white-cheeked gibbon (Hylobates leucogenys), red-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus), and Francois's leaf monkey (Semnopithecus francoisi).

    Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests 2008

  • Friday, October 17, 2008 at 02:28 PM une branche de douce-amere pour ta douc-e mere

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • There are several large mammals of conservation significance in this ecoregion, including the endangered douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus), red-cheeked gibbon (Hylobates gabriellae), and pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus) and potentially the tiger (Panthera tigris).

    Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests 2008

  • A new subspecies of douc langur, Pygathrix nemaeus cinereus ssp. nov.

    Biological diversity in Indo-Burma 2008

  • Onkeo Khamphavongsa, another tracker, describes the joy of waking to gibbons singing every morning or encountering groups of doucs — a type of monkey — 10 to 40 strong.

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