siamang
/ˈsaɪəmæŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large black gibbon, Symphalangus syndactylus, from Sumatra.
Example Sentences
- "A very curious ape, the Siamang, was also rather abundant, but it is much less bold than the monkeys, keeping to the virgin forests and avoiding villages. This species is allied to the little long-armed apes of the genus Hylobates, but is considerably larger, and differs from them by having the two first fingers of the feet united together, nearly to the end as does its Latin name, Siamanga syndactyla."
Etymology
From Malay siamang.