gibbon

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VERB + GIBBON

lives, red-cheeked

GIBBON + NOUN

hoolock

Definitions

noun

1

A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.

'[…] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.

name

1

A surname.

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'[…] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an

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02

Edward Gibbon wrote a book about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

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03

In Northern India lives another gibbon, the hoolock.

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04

Four leopard cubs, a bear cub, a monkey, and a red-cheeked gibbon were found sedated and packed into small cages.

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