hoolock

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any gibbon of the genus Hoolock, native to forests of northeastern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and nearby regions

   The hoolock crossed the canopy by swinging rapidly between branches.

Borrowed from Assamese holou or a related regional name for the ape. Hoolock was long used in combinations such as Hylobates hoolock; it is now also the scientific genus name for the hoolock gibbons.

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