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Definition of Presbytes
1. Noun. Langurs.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Cercopithecidae, Family Cercopithecidae
Member holonyms: Langur
Definition of Presbytes
1. presbyte [n] - See also: presbyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presbytes
Literary usage of Presbytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. List of the Osteological Specimens in the Collection of the British Museum by John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1847)
"Presented by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, RN Presbytes, ... Presbytes entellus.
Skull of an adult. Nepal. Presented by BH Hodgson, Esq. Skull of a ..."
2. List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1843)
"Presbytes nobilis, Gray, Ann. and Mag. NH 1842, 256. ... Presbytes maura.
Simia maura, Schreb. (not Raffles'). S. Edwardsii, Fischer; Edic. Birds, t..? a. ..."
3. Ceylon: A General Description of the Island, Historical, Physical by Horatio John Suckling (1876)
"The most numerous of the Presbytes is the ... This species, which is twenty inches
long, is the darkest of the Presbytes, ..."
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