单词 | Old World monkey |
释义 | Old World monkey (once / 236387 pages) n WORD FAMILY Old World monkey: Old World monkeys USAGE EXAMPLESUntil now, only apes and Old World monkeys were known to combine individual elements in different orders to convey distinct meanings. Scientific American(Sep 04, 2013) Molecular clocks suggest that Old World monkeys and apes split from their common ancestor 25 million to 30 million years ago. Scientific American(May 16, 2013) The team identified them as ape and Old World monkey ancestors from the features of their molars, which paleontologists routinely use to tell primates apart. Science Magazine(May 15, 2013) n of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together Syn|Hypo|Hyper catarrhine guenon, guenon monkey small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face mangabeylarge agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids Erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patasreddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa baboonlarge terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles macaqueshort-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa langurslender long-tailed monkey of Asia colobus, colobus monkeyarboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs Nasalis larvatus, proboscis monkeyBorneo monkey having a long bulbous nose Cercopithecus talapoin, talapoinsmallest guenon monkey; of swampy central and west African forests Cercopithecus aethiops, grivetwhite and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus, vervet, vervet monkeySouth African monkey with black face and hands African green monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, green monkeycommon savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail Papio ursinus, chacma, chacma baboongreyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa Mandrillus sphinx, mandrillbaboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters Mandrillus leucophaeus, drillsimilar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored Macaca mulatta, rhesus, rhesus monkeyof southern Asia; used in medical research Macaca radiata, bonnet macaque, bonnet monkey, capped macaque, crown monkeyIndian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair Barbary ape, Macaca sylvanatailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar Macaca irus, crab-eating macaque, croo monkeymonkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus, entellus, hanumanlangur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India Colobus guereza, guerezaa colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body monkey any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) |
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