OLD WORLD MONKEY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Old World monkey mean? 

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

1. of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD WORLD MONKEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

catarrhine; Old World monkey

Hypernyms ("Old 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 "Old World monkey"):

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

mangabey (large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids)

Erythrocebus patas; hussar monkey; patas (reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa)

baboon (large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles)

macaque (short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa)

langur (slender long-tailed monkey of Asia)

colobus; colobus monkey (arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs)

Nasalis larvatus; proboscis monkey (Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose)

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

Cercopithecidae; family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey)

 Context examples 

"Complementing evidence in humans and Old World monkeys, we suggest that reliance on scent signals to communicate MHC quality may be important across the primate lineage," say the researchers.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)

The new hyaenodont species was discovered in the same 25 million-year-old rocks as the oldest fossil evidence of the split between Old World monkeys and apes.

(Fossil discovery in Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized carnivore, National Science Foundation)

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

(Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)