Wanderoo

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A monkey (Macaca silenus) of south-central Asia, having a glossy black coat and a ruff of gray hair about the face.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various langur monkeys (of genus Semnopithecus), from Sri Lanka
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A large catarrhine monkey of Malabar, India, Macaem sitenus.
  • Word Usage
    "There are several varieties in Ceylon, among which the great black wanderoo, with white whiskers, is the nearest in appearance to the human race."
    Variant
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts