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talapoin

talapoin noun: a monkey from one of two species of Old World monkeys, of the genus Miopithecus, distinguished by a short-snouted head with a hairless face.

talapoin: a monkey from one of two species of Old World monkeys, of the genus Miopithecus, distinguished by a...
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Noun

talapoin (plural talapoins)

  1. A monkey from one of two species of Old World monkeys, of the genus Miopithecus, distinguished by a short-snouted head with a hairless face.
  2. (archaic) A Buddhist monk or priest.

talapoin meaning in Tamil

talapoin in Tamil

குரங்கு வகை

Forms of talapoin

pluraltalapoins
alternative formtallapoi

Origin of talapoin

From French talapoin, from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).

Questions about talapoin

What does talapoin mean?
Talapoin means a monkey from one of two species of Old World monkeys, of the genus Miopithecus, distinguished by a short-snouted head with a hairless face.
What is talapoin in Tamil?
Talapoin in Tamil is குரங்கு வகை. See Talapoin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is talapoin?
Talapoin is a noun.
What is the plural of talapoin?
The plural of talapoin is talapoins.

Words near talapoin in the dictionary

  1. Talang
  2. talanton
  3. talantons
  4. Talao
  5. Talao-talao
  6. talapoin
  7. talapoins
  8. talaporfin
  9. talaq
  10. talaqed
  11. talaqing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: talapoin (page history and authors); talapoin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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