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GENUS PITHECIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pithecia mean?
• GENUS PITHECIA (noun)
The noun GENUS PITHECIA has 1 sense:
1. sakis
Familiarity information: GENUS PITHECIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sakis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Pithecia; Pithecia
Hypernyms ("genus Pithecia" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pithecia"):
saki (small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail)
Holonyms ("genus Pithecia" is a member of...):
Cebidae; family Cebidae (all the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins)
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