Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having white hands.
- Having pure, unstained hands; not tainted with guilt.
- In zoöl, having the fore paws white: as, the white-handed gibbon, Hylobates lar. See cut under
gibbon .
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Examples
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Meanwhile, at the Honolulu zoo yesterday, according to a pool report, the president, several adults and a bunch of kids visited the elephants late in the day and then strolled up to a pair of white-handed gibbons and some ruffed lemurs.
Obama girls miss two days of school; when is it okay to keep a kid out of school? Valerie Strauss 2011
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A death for Achilles, and the divine maidens of Patmos to mourn him, to harp white-handed sorrow on their golden hair.
October « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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A death for Achilles, and the divine maidens of Patmos to mourn him, to harp white-handed sorrow on their golden hair.
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Apparently, the tiger was able to leap over the fence surrounding its enclosure after being stirred into an excited frenzy by a white-handed gibbon that had escaped its own pen as a result of both mechanical and human error.
Dianita Barratt: Escaped Tiger Confronts Toddler At Florida's 'Jungle Island' (VIDEO) 2010
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Studies are ongoing into natural hybridizing between pileated and white-handed gibbons in the KhaoYai Park.
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Other primates include silver leaf monkey Presbytis cristata, Phayre's leaf monkey P. phayrei and white-handed gibbon Hylobates lar.
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The white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) occurs only north of Lake Toba, and the dark-handed gibbon (Hylobates agilis) is found only to the south.
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The destruction includes prime habitat for the orangutan, siamang, and white-handed gibbon.
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The destruction includes prime habitat for the orangutan, siamang, and white-handed gibbon.
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The white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) occurs only north of Lake Toba, and the dark-handed gibbon (Hylobates agilis) is found to the south.
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