douc
/ (duːk) /
noun
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
Nearby words
doubter, doubtful, doubtfully, doubting thomas, doubtless, douc, douce, doucely, douceperes, douceur, douche
Word Origin for douc
C18: from French, from the native name
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Examples from the Web for douc
To Cochin-China also belongs the Douc, a very large species, remarkable for their coat of many colours.
The Desert World|Arthur ManginThese large apes are the ouanderou and the douc; to them, therefore, we must refer the production of the bezoar.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon