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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
colobus /ˈkɒləbəs/

▶noun (pl. same) a slender leaf-eating African monkey with silky fur. [Genera Colobus and Procolobus: several species.]

– derivatives
colobine noun.

– origin mod. L., from Gk kolobos ‘curtailed’ (with ref. to its shortened thumbs).

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