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red colobus

red colobus noun: any Old World monkey of the genus Piliocolobus.

red colobus: any Old World monkey of the genus Piliocolobus
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Noun

red colobus (plural red colobuses)

  1. Any Old World monkey of the genus Piliocolobus.
    • Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us.2019 January 29, Melvin Konner, “A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2019

Forms of red colobus

pluralred colobuses

Words formed from red colobus

Questions about red colobus

What does red colobus mean?
Red colobus means any Old World monkey of the genus Piliocolobus.
What part of speech is red colobus?
Red colobus is a noun.
What is the plural of red colobus?
The plural of red colobus is red colobuses.

Words near red colobus in the dictionary

  1. Red Clydeside
  2. red coat
  3. red coats
  4. red codling
  5. red colic
  6. red colobus
  7. red colobuses
  8. red copper
  9. red coral
  10. red corals
  11. red corner

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