wooyen, yuen

[Chinese name.] Zool.: Hylobates pileatus , a Gibbon (q. v.), from a small island near Camboja. Little is known of the habits of this species, the individuals of which differ greatly in coloration at different periods of their lives. The young are uniformly of a dirty white; females white, brownish-white on back, with a large black spot on the head and chest; males black, back of head, body, and legs grayish. wop, v . t . [WHOP.]