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# colobus

noun (a colobus, colobuses; also colobus monkey)

«colobus» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A slender African monkey with long silky fur, a long tail and only a stump instead of a thumb; the best-known kind is black and white. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colobus/#m1)
2. The group of these monkeys, which live high in forest trees and eat mostly leaves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colobus/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science and geography lessons on rainforests and animal adaptations, the colobus shows how animals fit their habitat: it has a special stomach with many parts to digest tough leaves, and it leaps between branches without needing a thumb. Phrases: «black-and-white colobus», «red colobus», «colobus monkey».

### Examples

- The colobus leapt from tree to tree high above us. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colobus/#x1)
- A black-and-white colobus has a long, white, bushy tail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colobus/#x2)
- Colobus monkeys eat leaves, not bananas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colobus/#x3)
- The word «colobus» comes from a Greek word meaning «cut short», because of its missing thumb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colobus/#x4)
- We saw colobus monkeys at the zoo in their tall tree house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colobus/#x5)
- Cutting down forests puts some kinds of colobus in danger. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colobus/#x6)

### Note

Said «KOL-uh-bus». Plural: colobuses or colobus monkeys. A trap: many people think all monkeys need thumbs to climb, but the colobus manages with just hooked fingers.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «colobus» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colobus/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«colobus» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/colobus.html) on Mova free.