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Yuen :: Yuen (n.) The crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen, and wooyen ape..

Hylobate :: Hylobate (n.) Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon..

Siamang :: Siamang (n.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web..

Gibbon :: Gibbon (n.) Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing..

Lar :: Lar (n.) A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon..

Ape :: Ape (n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes..

Hoolock :: Hoolock (n.) A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam..

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