"leaf monkey" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: leaf monkeys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} leaf monkey (plural leaf monkeys)
  1. Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs. Categories (lifeform): Colobine monkeys Translations (monkey of the genus Presbytis): sureli (Finnish)

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