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Langoor Type Monkey Ruined City Deserted People Abode

Word langoor
Definition
A type of monkey.

Sentence The ruined city, having been deserted by people, is now the abode of langoors. Long-tailed and black-faced, the monkeys are possessed of an overriding sense of mission.
Source Midnight's Children, p. 104

Image: CC-BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langur_monkey,_Orchha,_Madhya_Pradesh,_India.jpg

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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