GREEN MONKEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does green monkey mean? 

• GREEN MONKEY (noun)
  The noun GREEN MONKEY has 1 sense:

1. common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail

  Familiarity information: GREEN MONKEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEN MONKEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

African green monkey; Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus; green monkey

Hypernyms ("green monkey" is a kind of...):

guenon; guenon monkey (small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face)

 Context examples 

Additionally Vero cells, an African green monkey kidney epithelial cell line, are widely used in immunology and infectious disease research.

(African Green Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

The African green monkey has been in use in scientific research since the 1950s and its tissues are used to produce vaccines for polio and smallpox.

(African Green Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)