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Definition of Guereza
1. Noun. A colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body.
Definition of Guereza
1. n. A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.
Definition of Guereza
1. Noun. (zoology) A reddish-brown colobus monkey from Abyssinia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Guereza
1. a monkey [n -S]
Medical Definition of Guereza
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Guereza
Literary usage of Guereza
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Kilima-Njaro Expedition: A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1886)
"... will be necessary to distinguish Mr. Johnston's animal as a separate variety
or sub-species, to which the name of C. guereza caudatus might be applied. ..."
2. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1904)
"Here is the native home of the lovely black and white long-haired Colobus guereza ;
and on the plains the large red hartebeeste mimics the outlines of the ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"399. guereza (ger'e-za), n. [Native name.] 1. A large African monkey of the subfamily
... JA genus of monkeys, the type of which is the guereza. JE Gray. ..."
4. Modern Abyssinia by Augustus Blandy Wylde (1901)
"MONKEYS guereza (Colobus guereza). Common in all the forests of southern Abyssinia.
... A large black guereza is found in the forests of Waag and Lasta, ..."
5. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"guereza. or more longer than the body and more or less tufted at the end.
Their habits are similar to those of the langurs, and it has rarely been ..."
6. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1905)
"Beginning at one end of the series, we have the Black guereza ... Following on
this we may take a variety of the Mantled guereza from East Central Africa ..."
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