noun
definition
Any of the Old World monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae, in the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis, (surilis), and Semnopithecus, (gray langurs).
definition
A gibbon of the genus Hoolock.
Examples of langur in a Sentence
Only two or three forms of monkey enter the mountains, the langur, a species of Semnopithecus, ranging up to 12,000 ft.
You will take a short hike to look for the dusky langur that inhabits the mountains here.
A prodigiously long tail, beetling eyebrows with long black hairs, black ears, face, feet and hands, and a general greyish-brown colour of the fur are the distinctive characteristics of the langur.
It contains many valued species of animals, including the golden langur, a slender long-tailed monkey that is rare elsewhere in the world.
Researching the golden langur Meanwhile, the golden langur project that we funded in summer 2004 is soon to produce its final report.