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HYLOBATES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gibbons

Synonyms:

genus Hylobates; Hylobates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Hylobates" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Hylobates"):

gibbon; Hylobates lar (smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies)

Hylobates syndactylus; siamang; Symphalangus syndactylus (large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web)

Holonyms ("Hylobates" is a member of...):

family Hylobatidae; Hylobatidae (used in some classifications for the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs); sometimes considered a subfamily of Pongidae)

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