colobus

1. 1.

   arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs

   Synonymscolobus monkey

   BroaderOld World monkey

   Narrowerguereza

   Part ofgenus Colobus

Other forms of colobus

plural

colobuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about colobus

What does colobus mean?

colobus means "arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs".

How many syllables are in colobus?

colobus has 3 syllables: co-lo-bus. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for colobus?

Close synonyms include colobus monkey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colobus a common word?

colobus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.