| 单词 | old world monkey |
| 释义 | Old World monkey[ ohld-wurld muhng-kee ] / ˈoʊld ˌwɜrld ˈmʌŋ ki / nounany of various catarrhine primates inhabiting a range of environments in Africa, Arabia, and Asia, typically having a hairless face, forward- or downward-directed nostrils, relatively short arms, flat nails, and a stubby or vestigial tail, as seen in most representative species, including baboons, colobuses, and mandrills: in contrast, long, often prehensile tails are characteristic of New World monkeys Origin of Old World monkeyFirst recorded in 1835–40 Words nearby Old World monkeyold wives' tale, old woman, old-womanish, old-world, Old World leishmaniasis, Old World monkey, oldy, ole-, olea, oleaceous, oleaginous Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for Old World monkeyOld World monkey nounany monkey of the family Cercopithecidae, including macaques, baboons, and mandrills. They are more closely related to anthropoid apes than are the New World monkeys, having nostrils that are close together and nonprehensile tailsCompare New World monkey Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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