Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Semnopithecinæ, the so-called sacred monkeys of Asia, having a thumb, and not found in Africa. (Compare
Colobus .)
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Examples
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(nose-apes and slender-apes, or semnopithecus); on the twentieth, the man-like apes (anthropoides) or tail-less catarrhini (gorilla, chimpanzee, orang outang and gibbon).
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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(both in the tertiary strata;) the first being a large species of semnopithecus, and the second, a still larger animal belonging to the
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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Thus the uterus of various species of _semnopithecus_ seems to show a noteworthy correspondence with the same organ in woman. [
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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