α. 1800s– lutung.
β. 1800s– lotong.
单词 | lotong |
释义 | lotongn.α. 1800s– lutung. β. 1800s– lotong. Any of several herbivorous monkeys of the genus Trachypithecus (family Cercopithecidae), of South and South-East Asia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > subfamily Colobinae > genus Presbytis (langur) > species of Negro monkey1771 douc1774 simpai1820 lotong1824 entellus1843 Hanuman1843 Sumatran monkey1849 Sumatra monkey1877 tchincou1891 1820 T. S. Raffles in Philos. Mag. 56 453 Other species are named [by the natives] Chingkau, Simpai, Kra, and Lotong.] 1824 T. Horsfield Zool. Res. Java (at cited word) Semnopithecus Maurus. The name of the latter [monkey] is Lutung; but the Malays and Europeans apply this name to both species. 1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. vii. 432 Of the genus Semnopithecus are..the Lotong, or Semnopithecus Maurus, of F. Cuvier; the kra, etc. 1936 G. B. Gardner Keris v. 95 They have a curved iron handle forged on, resembling the tail of a lotong monkey. 1965 C. Shuttleworth Malayan Safari 10 A lotong (leaf monkey) chattered its alarm call near by. 2014 Times (Nexis) 5 Apr. (Saturday Review section) 40 There are monkeys of every shape and hue—emperor tamarins, silvery lutungs, Japanese and Barbary macaques. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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