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lan·gur  (läng-gr)

n.

Any of various slender, long-tailed Asian monkeys of the genus Presbytis and related genera that eat leaves, fruits, and seeds and have a chin tuft and bushy eyebrows.

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[Hindi lagr, perhaps from Sanskrit lglam, tail.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

langur - slender long-tailed monkey of Asia   catarrhine, Old World monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together genus Presbytes, mammal Semnopithecus, Presbytes - langurs entellus, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus, hanuman - langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India