spider monkey

spider monkey

n. Any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having long arms and legs and a long prehensile tail and lacking a thumb.

spider monkey

n 1. (Animals) any of several arboreal New World monkeys of the genus Ateles, of Central and South America, having very long legs, a long prehensile tail, and a small head 2. (Animals) woolly spider monkey a rare related monkey, Brachyteles arachnoides, of SE Brazil [C18: so called because its long limbs resemble the legs of a spider]

spi′der mon`key

n. any slender, long-limbed tropical American monkey of the genus Ateles, with a long, prehensile tail. [1755–65]

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spider monkey - arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tailAteles geoffroyiNew World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian - hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tailsAteles, genus Ateles - spider monkeys

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