African green monkey.
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African green monkey. — See green monkey … Useful english dictionary
African green monkey — noun common savannah monkey with greenish grey back and yellow tail • Syn: ↑green monkey, ↑Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus • Hypernyms: ↑guenon, ↑guenon monkey … Useful english dictionary
green monkey — noun common savannah monkey with greenish grey back and yellow tail • Syn: ↑African green monkey, ↑Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus • Hypernyms: ↑guenon, ↑guenon monkey … Useful english dictionary
green monkey — a common savanna monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, of West Africa, with a greenish gray back and yellow tail. Also called African green monkey. [1830 40] * * * … Universalium
Green monkey — Green Green (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. {Greener} (gr[=e]n [ e]r); superl. {Greenest.}] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr[ u]n, Dan. & Sw. gr[ o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See {Grow.}] 1.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
green monkey — n a long tailed African monkey of the genus Cercopithecus (C. aethiops) that has greenish appearing hair and is often used in medical research called also vervet monkey … Medical dictionary
Green monkey — This article is about the primate of the Cercopithecidae family. For the Thoroughbred racehorse, see The Green Monkey. Green monkey[1] Green Monkeys have black facial skin with go … Wikipedia
Green Monkey — Taxobox name = Green MonkeyMSW3 Groves|pages=158 159] status = LC status system = iucn3.1 status ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Butynski, T. Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | title = Cercopithecus aethiops | id = 4233 |… … Wikipedia
green monkey — green′ mon′key n. mam a greenish gray guenon, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, of W African savannas … From formal English to slang
green monkey — noun Date: 1840 a long tailed monkey of any of several African subspecies of a guenon (Cercopithecus aethiops syn. Chloroebus aethiops) having greenish appearing hair and often used in medical research called also vervet … New Collegiate Dictionary
