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Old World monkey
–noun
| any of various anthropoid primates of the family Cercopithecidae, of Africa, the Arabian peninsula, and Asia, typically having a hairless face, forward- or downward-directed nostrils, relatively short arms, flat nails, and either having a rudimentary tail or using the tail for balance rather than grasping, and including the baboon, colobus monkey, guenon, langur, macaque, mandrill, mangabey, patas, proboscis, and talapoin. |
[Origin: 1860–65
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Old World monkey
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| old world monkey | |
noun | |
| of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together |
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