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n. Any of various slender, long-tailed Asian monkeys of the genus Presbytis and related genera that eat leaves, fruits, and seeds and have a chin tuft and bushy eyebrows.

n. Any of the Old World monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae, in the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis, (surilis), and Semnopithecus, (gray langurs).

n. A native name for several large Indian monkeys of the genus Presbytis, or Semnopithecus, the two best known being the hanuman or entellus, P. entellus, the sacred monkey of India, and the black Nilgiri langur, P. johnii.

n. slender long-tailed monkey of Asia

"In an effort to keep monkeys out of the New Delhi subways, authorities have called in one of the few animals known to scare the creatures — a fierce-looking primate called the langur, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported Wednesday."

catarrhine    old world monkey   

semnopithecus entellus    presbytes entellus    entellus    hanuman   

titmice    chinchilla    manakin    monochromic    his'n    paroquet    lower-ranking    mongoose