colobus monkey

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

   Synonymscolobus

   BroaderOld World monkey

   Narrowerguereza

   Part ofgenus Colobus

Questions about colobus monkey

What does colobus monkey mean?

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

What is another word for colobus monkey?

Close synonyms include colobus. 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 monkey a common word?

colobus monkey 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.