green monkey

noun

a common savanna monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, of West Africa, with a greenish-gray back and yellow tail.

green monkey

See vervet, grivet
a W African variety of a common guenon monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, having greenish-brown fur and a dark face Compare grivet vervet

First recorded in 1830–40

So the Green Monkey unfastened the door of the golden cage and the Canary hopped out.

I have never seen a pea-green monkey before, and it strikes me you are quite gorgeous.

To eat this one Green Monkey would only serve to make you hungry for more, and there are no more.

The next moment her astonishment changed to anger, for there, in her best rocking-chair, sat a Green Monkey.

Even now she is laughing at our despair because we can find no way to get rid of the green monkey.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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