| 单词 | satan monkey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSatan monkey Satan monkey n. [after scientific Latin satanas, specific name of the black bearded saki (1807) and the black colobus (1838)] now rare either of two monkeys with black fur: (a) the black bearded saki of eastern Brazil, Chiropotes satanas; (b) the black colobus of western central Africa, Colobus satanas. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > miscellaneous types of grison1840 uakari1863 Satan monkey1881 1881 28th Rep. Sci. & Art. Dept. Comm. Council Educ. App. I. 587 in Parl. Papers (C. 2970) XXXVII. 1 The stinkhard (Mydaus meliceps), the Satan monkey (Colobus Satanus), a tree kangaroo (Dendrolegus inustus),..are the most conspicuous additions to the stuffed mammalia. 1906 E. Ingersoll Life Animals: Mammals 44 (caption) Black Saki, Cuxio, or Satan Monkey. 1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ix. 205 Others, like..the Satan monkey with his fine beard, are curiously reminiscent of ourselves. 1998 W. Beacham et al. Beacham's Guide Internat. Endangered Species I. 116/1 Other common names are satanic black colobus, and satan monkey. < as lemmas |
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