English Explanatory Dictionary

Miss Waldron's red colobus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Piliocolobus waldronae, a red colobus native to West Africa.

Word forms

Miss Waldron's red colobus Miss Waldron's red colobuses

Etymology

Discovered in December 1933 by Willoughby P. Lowe, who named it after a fellow museum employee, Miss Fanny Waldron, a colleague on the expedition.

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