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grivet
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun grivet has 1 sense
- grivet(n = noun.animal) cercopithecus aethiops - white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face; Array is a kind of guenon, guenon monkey
CIDE DICTIONARY
grivet, n. [Cf. F. grivet.].
A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis ), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota . [1913 Webster]
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