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col⋅o⋅bus

[kol-uh-buhs, kuh-loh-]
–noun, plural -bus⋅es, -bi [-bahy, -bahy] .
any of several large, slender African monkeys of the genus Colobus, lacking thumbs and having long silky fur of black and white (C. polykomos), black and reddish-brown (C. badius), or olive (C. verus): now dwindling.

Origin:
1811; < NL, the genus name < Gk kolobós docked, maimed; so named from the mutilated appearance of the thumbless hands
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