NEW WORLD MONKEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New World monkey mean? 

• NEW WORLD MONKEY (noun)
  The noun NEW WORLD MONKEY has 1 sense:

1. hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW WORLD MONKEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

New World monkey; platyrrhine; platyrrhinian

Hypernyms ("New World monkey" is a kind of...):

monkey (any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "New World monkey"):

marmoset (small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails)

capuchin; Cebus capucinus; ringtail (monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl)

Aotus trivirgatus; douroucouli (nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with large eyes and thick fur)

howler; howler monkey (monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry)

saki (small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail)

uakari (medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin; only New World monkey with a short tail)

titi; titi monkey (small South American monkeys with long beautiful fur and long nonprehensile tail)

Ateles geoffroyi; spider monkey (arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail)

Saimiri sciureus; squirrel monkey (small long-tailed monkey of Central American and South America with greenish fur and black muzzle)

woolly monkey (large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins)

Holonyms ("New World monkey" is a member of...):

Platyrrhini; superfamily Platyrrhini (New World monkeys: capuchin; douroucouli; howler monkey; saki; spider monkey; squirrel monkey; titi; uakari; woolly monkey; marmoset; tamarin)

 Context examples 

This group is divided into Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae) and New World monkeys (Callitrichidae and Cebidae).

(Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)