Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leaf monkey

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: leaf -mon-key
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.

Example Sentences

"White-headed leaf monkey (T. leiwocephalus) is also restricted to southern Guangxi."
"The banded leaf monkey (Presbytis femoralis) is a very shy animal and keeps to the canopy."
"Oh, a Francois' leaf monkey, about 2 years old, was looking at him sadly and giving a mournful wail. Its left hand was bleeding. Without a second thought, the highlander held the leaf monkey in his arms and hurried back home."

Inflected Forms

leaf monkeys (plural)

Questions

What does leaf monkey mean?: Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.

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