the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Macaca (macaque) > Macaca mulatta (rhesus macaque) (2)
More fully rhesus macaque, rhesus monkey. A brown macaque with red skin on the face and rump, Macaca mulatta, common and widespread in Asia.
The Rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta. Also in Bandar-log, Kipling's nation of monkeys (see quot. 1895); hence figurative, any body of irresponsible…