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red colobuses

red colobuses is the plural of red colobus.

Meaning of red colobus

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

Questions about red colobuses

What is red colobuses the plural of?
Red colobuses is the plural of red colobus.

Words near red colobuses in the dictionary

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

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