leaf monkey

English

Noun

leaf monkey (plural leaf monkeys)

1. Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.
   • 2008, Martin Walters, Heather Angel, Chinese Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide, →ISBN, page 57:

     White-headed leaf monkey (T. leiwocephalus) is also restricted to southern Guangxi.

   • 2011, Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, Singapore Biodiversity, →ISBN:

     The banded leaf monkey (Presbytis femoralis) is a very shy animal and keeps to the canopy.

   • 2015, Kekang He, New Theory of Children’s Thinking Development, →ISBN:

     Oh, a Francois' leaf monkey, about 2 years old, was looking at him sadly and giving a mournful wail. Its left hand was bleeding. Without a second thought, the highlander held the leaf monkey in his arms and hurried back home.

Translations

monkey of the genus Presbytis

Finnish: sureli Indonesian: surili (id), langur

References

• leaf monkey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Colobinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Colobinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “leaf monkey”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.