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GUENON MONKEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does guenon monkey mean?
• GUENON MONKEY (noun)
The noun GUENON MONKEY has 1 sense:
1. small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face
Familiarity information: GUENON MONKEY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
guenon; guenon monkey
Hypernyms ("guenon monkey" is a kind of...):
catarrhine; Old World monkey (of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guenon monkey"):
Cercopithecus talapoin; talapoin (smallest guenon monkey; of swampy central and west African forests)
Cercopithecus aethiops; grivet (white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face)
Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus; vervet; vervet monkey (South African monkey with black face and hands)
African green monkey; Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus; green monkey (common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail)
Holonyms ("guenon monkey" is a member of...):
Cercopithecus; genus Cercopithecus (type genus of the Cercopithecidae: guenons)
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