Yuen

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yuen \Yu"en\, n. (Zool.)
     The crowned gibbon ({Hylobates pileatus}), native of Siam,
     Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely
     arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are
     dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark
     hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The


     females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast
     and another on the crown. Called also {wooyen}, and {wooyen
     ape}.
     [1913 Webster]