Definition of Hylobates lar

1. Noun. Smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies.

Exact synonyms: Gibbon
Generic synonyms: Lesser Ape
Group relationships: Genus Hylobates, Hylobates

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hylobates Lar

Hygrophorus russula
Hygrophorus sordidus
Hygrophorus tennesseensis
Hygrophorus turundus
Hygroton
Hygrotrama
Hygrotrama foetens
Hyl
Hyla arenicolor
Hyla crucifer
Hyla regilla
Hylactophryne
Hylactophryne augusti
Hylidae
Hyllus
Hylobates lar
Hylobates syndactylus
Hylocereus
Hylocichla
Hylocichla fuscescens
Hylocichla guttata
Hylocichla mustelina
Hylophylax
Hylophylax naevioides
Hyman George Rickover
Hyman Rickover
Hymenaea
Hymenaea courbaril
Hymenanthera

Literary usage of Hylobates lar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"Length of the foot ............ In the extended posture the fingers reach below the knee1. [THE GIBBON (hylobates lar, Geoffr.). ..."

2. Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-eating Bats in the Collection of the by John Edward Gray (1870)
"hylobates lar. The Gibbon. BM Black ; circumference of the face, and the hands and ... hylobates lar, Illiger; Geoff. Simia longimana, Schreb. t. 2, f. 1. ..."

3. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1890)
"... and agreeing with Dr Lamb's diagram of the Hylobates leuciscus and the Hylobates lar at Washington, but not with the hylobates lar at Cambridge. ..."

4. The Sense of Touch in Mammals and Birds: With Special Reference to the by Walter Aubrey Kidd (1907)
"hylobates lar. x 35. Pes. Plantar surface, base of D. 3, transverse section. the left side of the section well-developed proximal imbrication of the ..."

5. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Straits Branch (1907)
"But in explanation of this I would suggest that there has been some confusion between Simia satyrus, which is red, and hylobates lar which is black. ..."

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