Meaning

2 senses

  1. Any primate of the family Cercopithecidae.

    Altweltaffe, Schmalnasenaffe

  2. A member of a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini.

More definitions
  • of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
primates falling in the family Cercopithecidae:

Forms

plural: Old World monkeys

Synonyms

2 synonyms
cercopithecid
Close in meaning
  • of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together:catarrhine

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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