pyow
pyow noun: an alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.
Noun
pyow (plural pyows)
- An alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.
- Sometimes, however, the adult male rejoined the group after emitting "Pyows" and moved with the others in quite a different direction.1977, Smithsonian contributions to zoology
- Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ […]1990, Mark A Berkley, William C Stebbins, Comparative Perception: Basic mechanisms
Examples of pyow in a sentence
- For instance, the bark of a spot-nose and pyow of a blue monkey sound very similar (4).1991, Richard Estes, The behavior guide to African mammals:
- Analysis of pyows made by a recognizable male over 10 yrs […]1993, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts:
- Male putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria have been observed stringing together calls of pyow and hack.2007, National Geographic Society, The National Geographic magazine:
Forms of pyow
| plural | pyows |
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Origin of pyow
Imitative.
Questions about pyow
- What does pyow mean?
- Pyow means an alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.
- How do you use pyow in a sentence?
- For instance, the bark of a spot-nose and pyow of a blue monkey sound very similar (4).
- What part of speech is pyow?
- Pyow is a noun.
- What is the plural of pyow?
- The plural of pyow is pyows.
Words near pyow in the dictionary
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