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barbary ape
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun barbary ape has 1 sense
- barbary ape(n = noun.animal) macaca sylvana - tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar; Array is a kind of macaque
OXFORD DICTIONARY
barbary ape, n. a macaque, Macaca sylvana, of N. Africa and Gibraltar.
Etymology
Barbary, an old name of the western part of N. Africa, ult. f. Arab. barbar BERBER
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