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wanderoo|ˌwɒndəˈruː|
Also 7–9 wanderow, 9 wandaru.
[a. Sinhalese wandurō, monkey, cognate with Hindī bandar, repr. Skr. vā̆nara monkey, believed to mean literally ‘forest-dweller’, f. vanar- (vanas, vana) forest. The Fr. form ouanderou (Buffon) is a re-spelling of the word as given by Knox.]
A name properly belonging to the langur monkeys (genus Semnopithecus), inhabiting Sri Lanka, but until recently almost always misapplied, after Buffon's example, to the Lion-tailed Macaque (Macacus silenus) of Malabar.
1681R. Knox Hist. Rel. Ceylon & E.-Ind. i. vi. 26 Monkeys... Some so large as our English Spaniel Dogs, of a darkish gray colour, and black faces, with great white beards... There is another sort just of the same bigness, but..milk white both in body and face... This sort they call in their Language, Wanderows. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. vii. 215 The Wanderow is a baboon rather less than the former [i.e. the Mandril]... What particularly distinguishes it is a large long white head of hair, together with a monstrous white beard. It..is chiefly seen in the woods of Ceylon and Malabar. 1785W. Smellie tr. Buffon's Nat. Hist. (1791) VIII. 133 The Ouanderou and the Lowando. [Footnote, Ouanderou, wanderu, the names of this animal in Ceylon.] 1812M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 97, I saw one of the large baboons, called here Wanderows, on the top of a coco-nut tree. 1874F. Buckland in Life xii. (1885) 289 One is a Macaque... Another is the Wanderoo... This monkey..comes from Malabar. 1907Times 21 Aug. 2/4 A lion-tailed macaque (Macacus silenus) often miscalled the wanderoo, a name which of right belongs to the purple⁓faced langur (Semnopithecus cephalopterus) of Ceylon.
attrib.1885W. T. Hornaday 2 Yrs. in Jungle xxiii. 274 We started a lot of wanderoo monkeys. 1894Outing XXIV. 292/1 Descriptions of the fauna of Ceylon, notably of the wandaru monkeys. |