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LANGUR
langur
(noun) slender long-tailed monkey of Asia
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
langur (plural langurs)
Any of the Old World monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae, in the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis, (surilis), and Semnopithecus, (gray langurs).
A gibbon of the genus Hoolock.
Anagrams
• Langru, Lurgan
Source: Wiktionary
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