GENUS COLOBUS

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Meaning:

A genus of Cercopithecidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Colobus" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Colobus"):

colobus; colobus monkey (arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs)

Holonyms ("genus Colobus" is a member of...):

Cercopithecidae; family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey)

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