macaque
Noun
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Short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa (synset 102489978)
is a type of: catarrhine, old world monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close togethersubtypes:
- macaca mulatta, rhesus, rhesus monkey - of southern Asia; used in medical research
- bonnet macaque, bonnet monkey, capped macaque, crown monkey, macaca radiata - Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
- barbary ape, macaca sylvana - tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar
- crab-eating macaque, croo monkey, macaca irus - monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines
belongs to: genus macaca, macaca - macaques; rhesus monkeys
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