macaque
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noun
any monkey of the genus Macaca, chiefly of Asia, characterized by cheek pouches and, usually, a short tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
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| any of various Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca, inhabiting wooded or rocky regions of Asia and Africa. Typically the tail is short or absent and cheek pouches are present | |
| [C17: from French, from Portuguese macaco, from Fiot (a W African language) makaku, from kaku monkey] | |
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Word Origin & History
macaque
E. Indian monkey, 1757, from Fr., from Port. macaco "monkey," a Bantu word brought from Africa to Brazil (where it was applied 17c. to a type of monkey there). Introduced as a genus name 1840.
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Example sentences
While two macaque monkeys performed visual and numerical tasks, the researchers monitored the activity of neurons there.
Hill and colleagues also compared the new human-brain scans with brain scans of macaque monkeys.
It turned out that policing is the keystone of macaque society.
They even use less than macaque monkeys on a strict diet or lemurs undergoing temporary hibernation.
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