doucn.
/duːk/, U.S. /duk/ More fully douc langur. Any of the leaf-eating, southeast Asian monkeys comprising the genus Pygathrix (family Cercopithecidae) and having a coat patterned with regions of brown, yellow, orange, white, black, and grey.
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1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 119 Le Douc de Buffon... Inhabits Cochin-China and Madagascar, where it is called Siphac.]
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 235 The..last of the monkies of the ancient continent, is the Douc, so called in Cochinchina, of which country it is a native.
1838 Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 325 Callosities do not only exist in the douc, but they are large.
1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 95 The Douc, or Variegated Monkey,..is perhaps the most gaily clad of all this group.
1934 Spolia Zeyanica 19 26 The Doucs have now been recognized as distinct under the name Pygathrix.
1981 Wilson (N. Carolina) Daily Times 13 Oct. b6/4 The tendency to grieve for each other is part of the douc langur's extremely sensitive nature.
2016 New Scientist 26 Mar. 14/4 Visit Son Tra..home to more than half of the country's endangered red-shanked doucs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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