单词 | colobus |
释义 | colobus /kol"euh beuhs, keuh loh"-/, n. , pl. colobuses, colobi /-buy', -buy/. 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. [1811; < NL, the genus name < Gk kolobós docked, maimed; so named from the mutilated appearance of the thumbless hands] |
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