"pyow" meaning in All languages combined

See pyow on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: pyows [plural]
Etymology: Imitative. Head templates: {{en-noun}} pyow (plural pyows)
  1. An alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby. Related terms: boom, hack
    Sense id: en-pyow-en-noun--Y3FCCt1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1990, Mark A Berkley, William C Stebbins, Comparative Perception: Basic mechanisms",
          "text": "Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ […]",
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          "text": "For instance, the bark of a spot-nose and pyow of a blue monkey sound very similar (4).",
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          "ref": "1993, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts",
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          "ref": "2007, National Geographic Society, The National Geographic magazine",
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