‖ entellus
(ɛnˈtɛləs)
[mod.L. app. from the proper name Entellus: see Virg. æn. v. 437–472.
The name was first proposed by Dufresne, Bulletin Soc. Philomath., 1797; but he does not explain the reason for his choice of it. Cf. other (past or present) specific names of Indian monkeys, anchises, priamus, rhesus, irus.]
An East Indian species of monkey of the genus Semnopithecus (S. entellus).
| 1843 Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XII. 169 It [the Semnopithecus Johnii] is more suspicious and wary than the Entellus. 1847 Carpenter Zool. §151 The Entellus abounds over almost every part of India. |