douc

British  

/ duːk /

noun

1. an Old World monkey, Pygathrix nemaeus, of SE Asia, with a bright yellow face surrounded by tufts of reddish-brown fur, a white tail, and white hindquarters: one of the langurs

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Etymology

Origin of douc

C18: from French, from the native name

Example Sentences

In addition to the red-shanked douc, there are two other douc species Southeast Asia, also critically endangered: the black-shanked and gray-shanked douc.

From National Geographic • Dec. 20, 2023

Greenviet’s census of the Son Tra douc population in 2017 registered around 1,300 individuals.

From National Geographic • Dec. 20, 2023

The reserve, which is also home to a military base, is a last refuge for the red-shanked douc, a critically endangered langur that numbers only about 2,000 animals in Son Tra.

From National Geographic • Dec. 20, 2023

One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves.

From Time Magazine Archive