old world monkey

1. Of Africa or Arabia or Asia;
   Having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together (synset 102487104)
   is a type of: monkey - any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
   subtypes:

   • guenon, guenon monkey - small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face
   • mangabey - large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids
   • erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patas - reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa
   • baboon - large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
   • macaque - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa
   • langur - slender long-tailed monkey of Asia
   • colobus, colobus monkey - arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs
   • nasalis larvatus, proboscis monkey - Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose
   belongs to: cercopithecidae, family cercopithecidae - Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey
   same as: catarrhine

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