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PATAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does patas mean?
• PATAS (noun)
The noun PATAS has 1 sense:
1. reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa
Familiarity information: PATAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Erythrocebus patas; hussar monkey; patas
Hypernyms ("patas" is a kind of...):
catarrhine; Old World monkey (of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together)
Holonyms ("patas" is a member of...):
Erythrocebus; genus Erythrocebus (patas)
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