单词 | bonnet macaque |
释义 | > as lemmasbonnet macaque bonnet macaque n. [after French macaque bonnet chinois lit. ‘Chinese hat macaque’, chiefly with reference to Macaca radiata, occasionally with reference to Macaca sinica (1820 or earlier) < bonnet chinois in the same sense (1766 in Buffon, with reference to Macaca radiata); compare also macaque à bonnet (1861 or earlier); compare slightly earlier bonnet monkey n. and also toque monkey n. at toque n. 2] either of two macaques native to southeast Asia having distinctive tufts of hair on the top of the head, Macaca radiata and (occasionally) M. sinica; also called bonnet monkey. ΚΠ 1843 J. E. Gray List Specimens Mammalia Brit. Mus. 7 The Munga or Bonnet Macaque. Macacus Sinicus. 1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes vi. 89 Variations in colour and form of the sexual skin of the bonnet macaque have not been described. 1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 1620/1 Thirty bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) served as subjects for the study. 2011 New Yorker 19 Dec. 68/2 Visitors might also catch sight of..the Bonnet Macaque. < as lemmas |
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