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GRIVET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grivet mean?
• GRIVET (noun)
The noun GRIVET has 1 sense:
1. white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face
Familiarity information: GRIVET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
White and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Cercopithecus aethiops; grivet
Hypernyms ("grivet" is a kind of...):
guenon; guenon monkey (small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face)
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