MACAQUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does macaque mean? 

• MACAQUE (noun)
  The noun MACAQUE has 1 sense:

1. short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

  Familiarity information: MACAQUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACAQUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("macaque" 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 "macaque"):

Macaca mulatta; rhesus; rhesus monkey (of southern Asia; used in medical research)

bonnet macaque; bonnet monkey; capped macaque; crown monkey; Macaca radiata (Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair)

Barbary ape; Macaca sylvana (tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar)

crab-eating macaque; croo monkey; Macaca irus (monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines)

Holonyms ("macaque" is a member of...):

genus Macaca; Macaca (macaques; rhesus monkeys)

 Context examples 

Macaques often are used to model human prion diseases because they are genetically similar to humans and are susceptible to several types of prion diseases known to infect people.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)

These so-called monoclonal antibodies could prevent or treat infection with HIV or its monkey equivalent in mice and macaques.

(HIV Immunotherapy Promising in First Human Study, NIH)

They implanted 42 surrogates, resulting in 22 pregnancies, but there were still only two infant macaques, and they died soon after birth.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

The human and mouse genomes were the first to be studied, and the collection now contains clones from rat, zebrafish, Fugu, Xenopus and rhesus macaque.

(Integrated Molecular Analysis of Genomes and their Expression Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers then administered a combination of these antibodies to rhesus macaques and exposed the animals to Zika virus one day later.

(Monoclonal antibodies against Zika show promise in monkey study, National Institutes of Health)

Finally, the researchers saw similar results when they used sounds that contained more natural harmonies for monkeys by playing recordings of macaque calls.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

The macaque, Macaca fascicularis, which originates from Mauritius.

(Cynomolgus Maritius Monkey, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The study recorded activity from individual amygdala neurons as macaque monkeys took part in an observational learning task.

(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)

The untreated control macaque developed Ebola virus disease and succumbed to the virus, but the treated animals survived and remained free of Ebola symptoms.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

A medium-sized macaque that tends to be an opportunistic omnivore, the Macaca fascicularis has grey-brown or reddish-brown fur that lightens ventrally, and cheek whiskers.

(Cynomolgus Maritius Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)