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Definition of Hylobates
1. Noun. Gibbons.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Hylobatidae, Hylobatidae
Member holonyms: Gibbon, Hylobates Lar, Hylobates Syndactylus, Siamang, Symphalangus Syndactylus
Definition of Hylobates
1. Noun. (plural of hylobate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hylobates
1. hylobate [n] - See also: hylobate
Medical Definition of Hylobates
1. A genus of the family hylobatidae consisting of six species. The members of this genus inhabit rain forests in southeast asia. They are arboreal and differ from other anthropoids in the great length of their arms and very slender bodies and limbs. Their major means of locomotion is by swinging from branch to branch by their arms. Hylobates means dweller in the trees. Some authors refer to symphalangus and nomascus as hylobates. The six genera include: h. Concolor (crested or black gibbon), h. Hoolock (hoolock gibbon), h. Klossii (kloss's gibbon; dwarf siamang), h. Lar (common gibbon), h. Pileatus (pileated gibbon), and h. Syndactylus (siamang). H. Lar is also known as h. Agilis (lar gibbon), h. Moloch (agile gibbon), and h. Muelleri (silvery gibbon). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hylobates
Literary usage of Hylobates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-eating Bats in the Collection of the by John Edward Gray (1870)
"The Indian hylobates. Black; frontal band grey; whiskers soft and fluffy, ...
hylobates Rafflesii. The Malay Gibbon. BM Black ; frontal band white ..."
2. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"hylobates, sp. /iah. Borneo. M. 1971. Part of the left ramus of the mandible,
containing pm. 4, m. i, and m. 2, and the broken base of m. ..."
3. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"Length of the foot ............ In the extended posture the fingers reach below
the knee1. [THE GIBBON (hylobates Lar, Geoffr.). ..."
4. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by Indian Museum, John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater (1881)
"Mamm. As. Soc. Mus. 1863, p. 5; 1851, p. 8. hylobates variegatus, Temminck, Monogr.
de Mamm. ti, 1827, p. xiii. hylobates ..."
5. A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company by East India Company Museum, Thomas Horsfield (1851)
"tend to clear up much of the confusion in which it is enveloped ; but while he
considers the hylobates variegatus of Kuhl (Beitr. p. ..."
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